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Written by Scott Silver
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Thursday, 31 August 2006 |
 The appended article is Orwellian, it is frightening in its implications, and it represents the next big leap in what I have been calling "The Corporate Takeover of Nature and the Disneyfication of the Wild."
Today the American Recreation Coalition's new Scenic Byways website went fully-operational with an article written by the Vice President of Corporate 'Environmentality' of the Walt Disney Company, Kym Murphy.
Kym Murphy is a long time Board Member / Director of the ARC.
The Walt Disney Company is a sustaining member of the ARC.
ARC is bad news for public lands. The same is true of Disney.
Imagine not being able to drive down the highway without messages being INVOLUNTARILY forced through your bones and directly into your brain. Now imagine that ARC and/or Disney had something to do with the content of those messages!!
NOW KNOW that the Walt Disney Company and the ARC already have a signed Memorandum of Understanding with all Federal land management agencies to work collaboratively upon environmental education and interpretation.
The document can be read at: http://www.wildwilderness.org/docs/arcdisney.pdf
"Who controls the past controls the future and who controls the present controls the past." -George Orwell
Scott
PS... Years ago I created a major resource which I titled: When Disney Defines Nature. I strongly recommend it at this time.
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http://www.byways2021.org/?p=5
Byways Should Be A "Laboratory" for Innovative Communication
A Kym Murphy contribution to Byways2021.org
We all know that carefully planned signs along a byway can welcome
visitors, point the way and tell the byway's story. Communicating with
byways travelers in ways that don't add visual clutter to the byway
experience is often a challenge, as both commercial and wayfinding
signage tends to proliferate over time. The Walt Disney Company is
experimenting with ways to communicate with its visitors by non-visual
means in order to enhance visitors' experiences and protect the visual
landscape. We have successfully created a technology for pavement
"grooves and ridges" which cause tires literally to hum a tune as a
vehicle passes over them! In the future, this non-visual "cue" to
guests could let them know they are approaching a Disney property and
bring smiles to their faces.
Why not use Scenic Byways as the leading-edge "laboratory" for this
simple approach to alerting motorists that they are approaching a
wayside, a recreation opportunity or an interpretive site? Consistent
throughout a byway - or all byways - these simple cues could
effectively communicate a standardized message, much like a stop sign,
while helping to eliminate the need for visual clutter and creating a
sense of continuity along the byway. Several unique, recognizable
rhythms or tonal patterns could be used as audible invitations to pause
along the byway, making visitors more receptive to "hearing" the byway
stories we have to tell.
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