Citizens of the Kingdom

From Lileks

I also want to go back to Disneyworld. On the Fourth I heard a story about new citizens sworn in on the grounds, right by the Magic Castle – a ceremony that seemed designed specifically to irritate French Intellectuals. (I exaggerate, somewhat, buy I will never forget a conversation about American architecture with a French actor; he was looking for a house and had seen too many Victorian homes, which he bitterly denounced as “stupid American Disney sh*t.”) After they became citizens they marched down Main Street. Fun detail #1: there were 1,000 of them from 100 countries. Fabulous all-American detail #2: F-15s screamed overhead. It couldn’t have been better if Mickey had parachuted down and given everyone a coin embossed with President Disney’s face.

How American is that!