[Disneyland’s] function is that because it’s so obviously illusory, it’s so obviously made of fake stuff, of fairy tales and cartoons, and copies of the world, that it makes it functionally possible to believe that the rest of America is in fact still a real society. So, what we’ll call the Disneyland function is the overproduction of images, such that a reference appears, or appears to appear, and that it looks real in comparison.

If there is one thing the European intellectuals hate it’s when Americans are having fun.