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Losing Yourself in Fantasy

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

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The History of Fantasyland

Disneyland was created right around the same time as modern Las Vegas. It almost seems like both Disneyland and Vegas were kind of tapping into some religious archetypes. I don't know if Vegas rather sold the nightmare of hellishness, but no. America from the get-go, and I call Fantasyland a 500-year history, was,. among other things, a religious conception of people seeking to practice their various eccentric and orthodox extreme religions.

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