Some light Sunday reading from The Atlantic as we prepare to go out into the world and tackle 2009: Future Schlock, from the always irreverent P.J. O’Rourke. (I seldom agree with his politics. But he’s always entertaining.)
Wherein O’Rourke and family visit Disney’s The Innoventions Dream Home (that’s the 1957 version at right) and discover the future ain’t what it used to be.
Bruce Handy, writing in Time … went on, “It’s not a novel observation to point out that our culture has become increasingly backward looking.â€
Well, given the future envisioned in Disney’s House of the Future, who can blame us for looking the other way?
Disney’s Tomorrowland is deeply, thoroughly, almost furiously unimaginative. This isn’t the fault of the “Disney cultureâ€; it is the fault of our culture. We seem to have entered a deeply unimaginative era.
But please. Don’t let it harsh your new year’s buzz.
