Southern California: Where They’ll Rob from the Poor to Give to the Rich and They’ll Kick You Out of Disneyland for Dressing Like a Hot Topic Cliché

Mike Davis’s “Fortress Los Angeles’ is a detailed account on the disproportionate amount of government money and resources that goes toward helping LA cater to the upper class residents and tourists. It’s pretty despicable how the city government took land away from low-income citizens for development and how their needs were completely ignored.

I really don’t know why it’s so shocking that Disneyland would kick out “Goth” kids. During the 60’s and 70’s it was common practice for them to turn away male customers with long hair. It’s all part of Disney’s reactionary way of preserving nostalgia. The rest of Thomas Hine’s article “Goths in Tommorowland” goes on to explain how much marketing has an affect on adolescents. I found myself agreeing with Hine’s closing statement: “Young people are caught in a paradox. They drive themselves to extremes to create space in which to be themselves. Yet the commercial machine they think they’re escaping is always on their back, ready to sell them something new” (72)