king kriggle post class for 2/23

Well today after another awesome class I keep coming back to the idea that “does reality outstrip fiction” and the ideas that the only way we have to compare things sometimes is by relating them to a movie or a video game. Thinking about whether reality outstrips fiction one could easily say that fiction is often what we want it to be. Taking Disney as a primary example it is something that we would want to see. There is no sadness, no mention of the depressions or anything of the such. It merely glamorizes the history of the US and other things and bundles it up into a neatly bound package, a package that can easily be sold and reproduced. This goes back to the ideas of reproduction of an original. So in essence Yes, I do believe that fiction can outstrip reality, but often our realities outstrip the fictions that we have been made to believe and have been conditioned to respond to. When thinking about comparison and our hyperreal world that we live in I keep coming back ot the ideas put forth by Doc Cummings about her first view on Las Vegas. I know I have fallen victim to the very same thing when I would encounter something in life that seemed so surreal it almost looked or felt like a movie. I think that we often make this comparison because movies and games we know to be fake, so when something is so unreal and magnificent that it could only be seen in a movie or a game to be believed it is very easy to draw this conclusion and make the comparison. I don’t think this is going overboard or anything of the such, but think about the first time you ever laid eyes on the grand canyon or any other natural wonder that seemed so surreal it almost made you disassociate from the entire thing altogether. Well it definitely is an interesting theory, but at the same time I have to wonder what people would do in the same situation before movies or games or even books were around, what did they use as their comparisons? What did they feel like, was it the same or different?