Reading: Eco "The City of Robots"
The two primary arguments that Eco makes of the course of this reading is that people lack free will in their reality as robots and Disney is an example of a "city of robots." I agree with Eco's argument about robots because I see the way that people act, even outside of organized attraction parks. The rules that we follow in life perfectly identify us as robots; we follow the culturally appointed responsibilities of people to exact points. We are expected to attend college after high school graduation, we are expected to get married, we are expected to have children, we are expected to retire and die. Most people follow these rules without considering the reality that people have free will not to go to college, or get married, or have children. The people that do "break" these rules often do so without consideration for the rules they are breaking. The existence and controlling love of Disney is an example of people acting like robots and Dorfman discusses this in his writing "The Disneyfication of Reality."
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