City of Los Angeles

All cities since then are mere replicas of the first city. They are places in which protection is sought, in which war is waged. They are furthermore the places where education takes place, where the arts of peace such as theater flourish. Still, they are constructs of humanity.

In post-modern philosophy, in which everything can be reduced to the status of a ôtext,ö one may read the city not only as a fictitious construct, but as a construct with no counterpart in reality. It is a map without a geographical referent. This point is most clearly made by Jean Baudrillard whose philosophy holds that our world is now in a state of perpetual simulation with no counterpart in reality. His ideal metaphor for this state of affairs is Disneyland.

The central area of Disneyland is Main Street, an attraction that

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