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Ken Rufo's guest post was quite helpful, but the most interesting part was during his discussion on the Matrix movie and the concept of the simulacrum. Rufo explains the simulacrum of Epcot and how we believe that we're really in movies, which are just fakes. This makes me think of all the ideas from my childhood, including Disney, the future, and all of our childhood hopes and dreams are just simulacras, and none of it is real at all. The ideas we get from Disney are love, beauty, frienships with humans and animals, and happy endings. I grew up thinking that one day I will get a great, fun job, live in a nice house, fall in "love", have a perfect family and die happy. This dream life was based off of movies like Aladdin, the Little Mermaid, and Beauty and the Beast. These movies projected these picture perfect life ideas that were embedded into my mind. These themes come from cartoons, nothing real, nothing that could ever be real. (Talking fish, magic carpets, beast to handsom man). But through it all, it was believed to be true.