History Quotes / TheThemeParkVersion

->It’s hard to talk seriously about [[TheSixties the 60s]] today, because TV and a lot of assholes have almost ruined it. When I taught film courses in southern California in the mid-80s, I was appalled to discover that college students thought of the 60s as a traumatic, troubled period —- a time characterized by young people losing their way, freaking out on bad acid trips, denouncing their parents, getting killed in Vietnam, and protesting the way American society was being run and abjectly failing at it...Many of these students didn’t realize -- and some of them still don’t -- that the 60s [[RealityIsUnrealistic was a more prosperous period than the 50s]], economically as well as spiritually. Some people actually had fun at demonstrations and on hallucinogens, and they often accomplished and learned important things in the process. [[HumansAreSpecial Most of all, a lot of very alienated, withdrawn, and lonely people made the discovery that they weren’t alone]]...But you can’t really talk about any of that nowadays without making people under 40 groan. It’s easy enough to understand: the biggest and most influential disseminator of [[TheThemeParkVersion history is TV and all TV tells us]] about the 60s is the stuff that was false, fatuous, and silly. Worst of all, [[SellOut the people who were only too happy]] to betray whatever was most dangerous, hopeful, and valuable about 60s values, basically the ones who cared about money and power, were mainly the ones who wound up, either consciously or inadvertently, with the task of [[WrittenByTheWinners defining the era for subsequent generations]].

-->--'''[[SonicTheHedgehog Dr. Eggman]]''', referring to the [[UnderTheSea Aquarium Park]] level of ''VideoGame/SonicColors''.

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-> ''"I sometimes say that surrealism triumphed in the inessential and failed in the essential... The surrealist movement cared little about gloriously entering the histories of literature and painting. What it wished above all, an imperious and unrealizable wish, was to transform the world and change life. On this point -- the essential -- a quick look around us clearly shows our failure."''

-> ''"The history of our Revolution will be one continued lie from one end to the other. The essence of the whole will be that Dr. Franklin's electrical rod smote the Earth and out sprung General Washington. That Franklin electrified him with his rod, and thence forward these two conducted all the policy, negotiations, legislatures and war."''

->''It’s hard to talk seriously about the 60s today, because TV and a lot of assholes have almost ruined it. When I taught film courses in southern California in the mid-80s, I was appalled to discover that college students thought of the 60s as a traumatic, troubled period —- a time characterized by young people losing their way, freaking out on bad acid trips, denouncing their parents, getting killed in Vietnam, and protesting the way American society was being run and abjectly failing at it...Many of these students didn’t realize -- and some of them still don’t -- that the 60s [[RealityIsUnrealistic was a more prosperous period than the 50s]], economically as well as spiritually. Some people actually had fun at demonstrations and on hallucinogens, and they often accomplished and learned important things in the process. [[HumansAreSpecial Most of all, a lot of very alienated, withdrawn, and lonely people made the discovery that they weren’t alone]]...But you can’t really talk about any of that nowadays without making people under 40 groan. It’s easy enough to understand: the biggest and most influential disseminator of [[TheThemeParkVersion history is TV and all TV tells us]] about the 60s is the stuff that was false, fatuous, and silly. Worst of all, [[SellOut the people who were only too happy]] to betray whatever was most dangerous, hopeful, and valuable about 60s values, basically the ones who cared about money and power, were mainly the ones who wound up, either consciously or inadvertently, with the task of [[WrittenByTheWinners defining the era for subsequent generations]].''

-> '''Creator/LuisBunuel''': "I sometimes say that surrealism triumphed in the inessential and failed in the essential. . . . The surrealist movement cared little about gloriously entering the histories of literature and painting. What it wished above all, an imperious and unrealizable wish, was to transform the world and change life. On this point -- the essential -- a quick look around us clearly shows our failure."

->''"I love the West. I read a lot about the West, and I'm shocked, I'm ashamed that in pictures they have not made the true story of the winning of the West -- comprising 90 percent foreigners, 100 percent laborers, nothing to do with guns. Streets, mountains, roads, bridges, streams, forests -- that's the winning of the West to me. Hard! Tremendous, tremendous fight. But we have, as you know [instead], cowboys and indians and all that. Shane comes into town, cleans it up and leaves. He's doing that every week now on TV."''

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->Meanwhile, Ramirez is still in Scotland. You can tell because in Scotland there's '''''CONSTANT BAGPIPE MUSIC.'''''
-->--'''[[WebVideo/TheSpoonyExperiment Noah Antwiler]]''' on ''{{Franchise/Highlander}} 2: The Quckening''

->As if the outrageous sexual politics of Fair Haven weren’t enough somebody on the ''Voyager'' writing staff suddenly realised that they hadn’t allowed the populace of this mock Irish village to indulge in that drabbest of ''Trek'' clichés...Seamus (still one of the most godawful stereotypes) witnessing Tommy boy [[ClarkesThirdLaw committing acts of unholy magic through unnatural means!]] This is going to be a ''long'' hour. When these [[{{Oireland}} dreadful Irish caricatures]] started talking about another Irish town where the potatoes stopped growing and the cows stopped giving milk when a group of spirit folk visited I could hear Ireland cutting off diplomatic relations with America.
-->--'''[[http://docohobigfinish.blogspot.co.uk/2012/08/voyager-season-six.html Joe Ford]]''' on ''Series/StarTrekVoyager'', "Spirit Folk"

->--'''[[WebVideo/TheSpoonyExperiment Noah Antwiler]]''' on ''{{Franchise/Highlander}} 2: The Quckening''

->''"The mighty ocean... Cradle of life... ''Trivialized for your amusement'' at Eggman's Incredible Interstellar Amusement Park!"''

->''"So naturally, if you live in the states, the first thing you're probably gonna do is compare ''this'' map to the real thing! So, Atlanta should be right around here which is--...[-Chattanooga?-] And it's just a few miles inland from....[-Daytona Beach-]....That map is what got me interested. It's adorable. It's like they took all the boring parts of the United States and tried to mush the rest of it back to together good enough to still hold shape. It's about 80 miles across instead of 3000, and that's why you can see Miami Beach ''from space''."''

->''"As if the outrageous sexual politics of Fair Haven weren’t enough somebody on the ''Voyager'' writing staff suddenly realised that they hadn’t allowed the populace of this mock Irish village to indulge in that drabbest of ''Trek'' clichés...Seamus (still one of the most godawful stereotypes) witnessing Tommy boy [[ClarkesThirdLaw committing acts of unholy magic through unnatural means!]] This is going to be a ''long'' hour. When these [[{{Oireland}} dreadful Irish caricatures]] started talking about another Irish town where the potatoes stopped growing and the cows stopped giving milk when a group of spirit folk visited I could hear Ireland cutting off diplomatic relations with America."''
-->--'''[[http://docohobigfinish.blogspot.co.uk/2012/08/voyager-season-six.html Doc Oho]]''' on ''Series/StarTrekVoyager'', "Spirit Folk"

->''"As if the outrageous sexual politics of Fair Haven weren’t enough somebody on the ''Voyager'' writing staff suddenly realised that they hadn’t allowed the populace of this mock Irish village to indulge in that drabbest of Trek clichés...Seamus (still one of the most godawful stereotypes) witnessing Tommy boy [[ClarkesThirdLaw committing acts of unholy magic through unnatural means!]] This is going to be a ''long'' hour. When these [[{{Oireland}} dreadful Irish caricatures]] started talking about another Irish town where the potatoes stopped growing and the cows stopped giving milk when a group of spirit folk visited I could hear Ireland cutting off diplomatic relations with America."''

->''"I have to ask the question, but are the Irish desperate for acting work? There must be a reason that they allow themselves to be shoehorned into such offensively stereotypical roles like they are in ''[[Series/StarTrekTheNextGeneration TNG]]''[=’=]s Up the Long Ladder and this narrow minded glimpse of Irish life. What is it with these godawful holodeck programmes? ...And now we have Fair Haven where Tom Paris has ''truly'' excelled himself. A picturesque Irish town that looks a lot like the Paramount backlot dressed up with clover leafs populated full of [[FlatCharacter bromidic, one dimensional ciphers]]. A setting that is perfect to peddle out the ([[FleetingDemographicRule beyond clichéd]]) plot in ''[=TNG=]''[='=]s Ship in a Bottle of hologram rights. All Irish pubs are drunken, infested piss holes (actually [[OnSecondThought that one might be true]]…now they have banned smoking, most pubs do stink of stale beer and piss) populated by rowdy, cheating men and all landlords are [[ReligiousBruiser devoutly religious hunks]] with smouldering looks."''
-->--'''[[http://docohobigfinish.blogspot.co.uk/2012/08/voyager-season-six.html Doc Oho]]''' on ''Series/StarTrekVoyager'', "Fair Haven"

-->''"The mighty ocean... Cradle of life... ''Trivialized for your amusement'' at Eggman's Incredible Interstellar Amusement Park!"''

->''"I have to ask the question, but are the Irish desperate for acting work? There must be a reason that they allow themselves to be shoehorned into such offensively stereotypical roles like they are in ''[[Series/StarTrekTheNextGeneration TNG]]''[=’=]s Up the Long Ladder and this narrow minded glimpse of Irish life. What is it with these godawful holodeck programmes? ...And now we have Fair Haven where Tom Paris has ''truly'' excelled himself. A picturesque Irish town that looks a lot like the Paramount backlot dressed up with clover leafs populated full of [[FlatCharacter bromidic, one dimensional ciphers]]. A setting that is perfect to peddle out the ([[FleetingDemographicRule beyond clichéd]]) plot in ''[=TNG=]''[='=]s Ship in a Bottle of holograms rights. All Irish pubs are drunken, infested piss holes (actually [[OnSecondThought that one might be true]]…now they have banned smoking, most pubs do stink of stale beer and piss) populated by rowdy, cheating men and all landlords are [[ReligiousBruiser devoutly religious hunks]] with smouldering looks."''

->''"I have to ask the question, but are the Irish desperate for acting work? There must be a reason that they allow themselves to be shoehorned into such offensively stereotypical roles like they are in ''[[Series/StarTrekTheNextGeneration TNG]]''[=’=]s Up the Long Ladder and this narrow minded glimpse of Irish life. What is it with these godawful holodeck programmes? ...And now we have Fair Haven where Tom Paris has ''truly'' excelled himself. A picturesque Irish town that looks a lot like the Paramount backlot dressed up with clover leafs populated full of [[FlatCharacter bromidic, one dimensional ciphers]]. A setting that is perfect to peddle out the ([[FleetingDemographicRule beyond clichéd]]) plot of ''[=TNG=]''[='=]s Ship in a Bottle of holograms rights. All Irish pubs are drunken, infested piss holes (actually [[OnSecondThought that one might be true]]…now they have banned smoking, most pubs do stink of stale beer and piss) populated by rowdy, cheating men and all landlords are [[ReligiousBruiser devoutly religious hunks]] with smouldering looks."''

->''"I have to ask the question, but are the Irish desperate for acting work? There must be a reason that they allow themselves to be shoehorned into such offensively stereotypical roles like they are in ''[[Series/StarTrekTheNextGeneration TNG]]''[=’=]s Up the Long Ladder and this narrow minded glimpse of Irish life. What is it with these godawful holodeck programmes? ...And now we have Fair Haven where Tom Paris has ''truly'' excelled himself. A picturesque Irish town that looks a lot like the Paramount backlot dressed up with clover leafs populated full of [[FlatCharacter bromidic, one dimensional ciphers]]. A setting that is perfect to peddle out the ([[FleetingDemographicRule beyond clichéd]]) plot of ''[=TNG=]''[='=]s Ship in a Bottle of holograms rights. All Irish pubs are drunken, infested piss holes (actually [[OnSecondThought that one might be true]]…now they have banned smoking, most pubs do stink of stale beer and piss) populated by rowdy, cheating men and all landlords are [[ReligiousBrusier devoutly religious hunks]] with smouldering looks."''

-->The mighty ocean... Cradle of life... ''Trivialized for your amusement'' at Eggman's Incredible Interstellar Amusement Park!

->''Leave it to Disneyland to turn Snow White into the preschool version of Paris Hilton, kids into celebrity stalkers and parents into slightly disgruntled paparazzi. Maybe it's just a matter of crowd control, but where's the magic in that?''
-->-- '''Rick Vanderknyff''', ''[[http://local.msn.com/article.aspx?cp-documentid=25050717 10 Things I Miss About Disneyland]]''

-->--'''[[SonicTheHedgehog Dr. Eggman]]''', referring to the [[UnderTheSea Aquarium Park]] level of ''SonicColors''.

-->''"In your text, treat Africa as if it were one country. It is hot and dusty with rolling grasslands and huge herds of animals and tall, thin people who are starving. Or it is hot and steamy with very short people who eat primates. Don't get bogged down with precise descriptions. ... The continent is full of deserts, jungles, highlands, savannahs and many other things, but your reader doesn't care about all that, so keep your descriptions romantic and evocative and unparticular."''
-->--"[[http://www.granta.com/Magazine/92/How-to-Write-about-Africa/Page-1 How to Write About Africa]]", Binyavanga Wainaina

-->I mean, this isn't even how people in Texas dress - this isn't even how cowboys dress! This like how ''ice skaters dressing up as cowboys'' dress.
-->--'''TheNostalgiaCritic''' on the "Texans" in ''{{North}}''.

-->The mighty ocean. Cradle of life. ''Trivialized for your amusement at Eggman's Incredible Interstellar Amusement Park!''