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PeoplemoverMatt · 02-23-2009, 06:42 PM

"it's a small world!" was originally intended for the 1964 World's Fair. Epcot was originally intended to be a permanent World's Fair. There is something of a connection there. Unfortunately 45 years later, people have no idea what a World's Fair is anymore. They have no mental understanding of the concept of global unity & harmony that people envisioned in the 1960s & 70s, partly because kids these days grow up believing the 60s & 70s were nothing but the happy hippy days, and some war was going on. They could never make the kinds of connections necessary to really "get" why "it's a small world!" is in Epcot.

Today people see "it's a small world!" as a place where a song repeats itself endlessly, happy little dolls dance around, and now Disney characters are here to make your kids feel all warm & fuzzy inside. They don't get it, so, Fantasyland, for sure.

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PeoplemoverMatt Realist By Nature People who found this post helpful: Join Date: Sep 2004 Location: Valencia, CA Posts: 4,954 Posts Liked: 0 Liked 8 Times in 8 Posts	"it's a small world!" was originally intended for the 1964 World's Fair. Epcot was originally intended to be a permanent World's Fair. There is something of a connection there. Unfortunately 45 years later, people have no idea what a World's Fair is anymore. They have no mental understanding of the concept of global unity & harmony that people envisioned in the 1960s & 70s, partly because kids these days grow up believing the 60s & 70s were nothing but the happy hippy days, and some war was going on. They could never make the kinds of connections necessary to really "get" why "it's a small world!" is in Epcot. Today people see "it's a small world!" as a place where a song repeats itself endlessly, happy little dolls dance around, and now Disney characters are here to make your kids feel all warm & fuzzy inside. They don't get it, so, Fantasyland, for sure. __________________ "I don't believe in taking foolish chances, but nothing can be accomplished without taking any chance at all." -- Charles Augustus Lindberg "Our greatest natural resource is the minds of our children." -- Walter Elias Disney "So are we to continue in sin that grace might increase? May it never be! How shall we who died to sin still live in it? Or do you not know that all of us who have been baptized into Christ Jesus have been baptized into His death? Therefore we have been buried with Him...so we too might walk in the newness of life." -- Romans 6:1-4 Last edited by PeoplemoverMatt; 02-23-2009 at 06:47 PM.