if we’re living in an East India Company moment where corporations are trying to become the new nation-states, what would it mean to be a “citizen” of Disney 
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now that “narrative economics” is the hot new thing in econ, maybe film criticism and economic analysis will slowly melt into each other
if the econ establishment is trying to absorb/understand social psych + media theory + memetics, then Disney makes for a good case studypic.twitter.com/RflNI9TJe8
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the logical conclusion of rational choice theory => technocratic management through monetary policy the logical conclusion of narrative economics => cultural management through large scale story production, sort of like South Korea’s K-pop projectpic.twitter.com/PhYSzg1Esu
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if Disney is narrative authoritarianism, D&D is participatory democracy, and maybe Fortnite is something in between
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Interesting example of Disney diplomacy: Bob Iger talks about how Saudi Arabia tried to convince him to build a theme park in the Middle East. the crown prince thought a local Disneyland would be good for his political goalspic.twitter.com/jayuzAuP2z
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In a less serious vein ... you may have seen this, but just in case:https://twitter.com/TriptonicSounds/status/1208861651941941250 …
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I should really be writing more of my thoughts as absurdist speculative fiction
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Maybe this is obvious, but if you haven't already read "Down and Out in the Magic Kingdom" by
@doctorow then I SINCERELY recommend it -
I haven’t, thank you

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Neal Stephenson mentions Disney in his essay about operating systems: “Disney and Apple/Microsoft are in the same business: short-circuiting laborious, explicit verbal communication with expensively designed interfaces.” http://cristal.inria.fr/~weis/info/commandline.html …
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