Mony- Spaceship Earth

When my 80-year-old grandmother asked me to accompany her to Epcot yesterday, I tried to come up with every excuse in the book. But then I thought what the heck, what better place to explore postmodernism architecture then at Epcot Center with my moo-moo. Plus, she was paying.
The orginal concept of Epcot was to develop an urbane urbanism type community in futuristic setting. Disney wanted it not only to be a theme park, but to also to present itself as a well established community. Even though Disney died and it never became a community, you can see were the designers attempted to make the buildings all about the external, much like the idea of urban urbanism.
A perfect example of anamnesis at Epcot, is the unconscious connections that one draws when staring at the Epcot ball. It always makes me think of a giant golf ball. Inside the ball, ironically enough, is a ride called "space ship earth". You sit in a little space ship and travel through out the history of western civilazation. Throughout the ride, there is theme song "tomorrow's child" that seems to have two verses for the entire 15 -minute ride. This song promises the rider, that even though there is war and violence in the world, that some how all of this destruction and invention will help the future's children. I wanted to vomit. This ride is chucked full of postmodern imagery and music. Not, only do we get to see robots re-creating history, we also get to see the robots creating our future. My Grandmother that this ride was revoutionary. I laughed.
Ironically, this ride was supposed to be futuristic, but it was completley outdated. The only thing that came to mind when processing all of this was what Macherey said,"What is important in the work is what it does not say". I know that "space ship earth" is not a work of literature, but it spoke volumes.