Hyperreal and Imaginary

"Disneyland imaginary is neither true or false: it is a deterrence machine set up in order to rejuvenate in reverse the fiction of the real" (175).

Jean Baudrillard argues that Disneyland presents what are very realistic, but fake reality as imaginary. While presenting its imaginary features, it allows people to differentiate between reality and imaginary: people would believe, he claims, that Disneyland is imaginary and that the surroundings of Disneyland are real. However, Baudrillard makes his argument more interesting by asserting that "in fact all of Los Angeles and the America surrounding it are no longer real" (175). I found this example very intriguing, for it well explained what masks the absence of a besic reality.