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Disney's Tomorrowland Is Erasing Real History To Sell You Fake Nostalgia
Walt Disney's theme parks are built on nostalgia. Main Street, USA is a romanticized small town from the 1800s. Liberty Square is colonial America. Frontierland is the old west. Even the castles in Fantasyland are reaching back into a European past that mostly never existed. There's only one exception: Tomorrowland.
By Brooke Brandtjen4 min read
The whole point of Tomorrowland was to look forward instead of back, to imagine a future filled with technology that hadn't been invented yet. And the Carousel of Progress, the land's centerpiece since 1964, was supposed to take guests on a journey through the history of how we got there.