Comments on: Surreal Estate USA: Orlando, FL http://mediacology.com/2007/02/22/surreal-estate-usa-orlando-fl/ Media Permaculture Fri, 05 Dec 2008 11:05:00 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.2 By: stevo http://mediacology.com/2007/02/22/surreal-estate-usa-orlando-fl/#comment-2747 stevo Thu, 22 Feb 2007 22:26:08 +0000 http://mediacology.com/?p=228#comment-2747 Bob, it sounds to me that it is you that is being the snob attributing some mystical elitist status on Kerouac's residence. A status I am sure he'd totally abhor. I think you miss the point. I think the "focus" of the article is in a sense to point to the absurdity of the project contrasted with the irony of Kerouac's vision. "...he scorned "the middle-class non-identity which finds its perfect expression … in rows of well-to-do houses with lawns and television sets in each living room with everybody looking at the same thing and thinking the same thing at the same time." Whereas Disney was looking for control, Kerouac personified the American urge to defy control." James Howard Kunstler calls it the biggest misallocation of resources since the second world war. Kerouac's house is just a bunch of bricks, timber and mortar. It's largely meaningless in this context. Let it go. Bob, it sounds to me that it is you that is being the snob attributing some mystical elitist status on Kerouac’s residence. A status I am sure he’d totally abhor.

I think you miss the point. I think the “focus” of the article is in a sense to point to the absurdity of the project contrasted with the irony of Kerouac’s vision.

“…he scorned “the middle-class non-identity which finds its perfect expression … in rows of well-to-do houses with lawns and television sets in each living room with everybody looking at the same thing and thinking the same thing at the same time.” Whereas Disney was looking for control, Kerouac personified the American urge to defy control.”

James Howard Kunstler calls it the biggest misallocation of resources since the second world war.

Kerouac’s house is just a bunch of bricks, timber and mortar. It’s largely meaningless in this context. Let it go.

]]> By: bob http://mediacology.com/2007/02/22/surreal-estate-usa-orlando-fl/#comment-2746 bob Thu, 22 Feb 2007 13:59:56 +0000 http://mediacology.com/?p=228#comment-2746 I think the snob who wrote the article needed to do a little more research to balance it. The demeaning "kind of literary time-share" remark about Kerouac's house in Orlando doesn't inform the reader that it's now a literary landmark and writers' retreat and in no way a McMansion, condo, or time-share. The magazine also took myriad pictures of it, but since it didn't fit their snobby focus, the house ended up on the cutting room floor. Pity. I think the snob who wrote the article needed to do a little more research to balance it. The demeaning “kind of literary time-share” remark about Kerouac’s house in Orlando doesn’t inform the reader that it’s now a literary landmark and writers’ retreat and in no way a McMansion, condo, or time-share. The magazine also took myriad pictures of it, but since it didn’t fit their snobby focus, the house ended up on the cutting room floor. Pity.

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