Okay, Lee, how's this. Both places represent utopian spaces--perhaps dystopian spaces might be more exact. Money gets changed into chips and tickets; time stands still; people from all walks of life mix freely, that is, both places strive to unite rather than to divide people based on social class. Of course, in Vegas you have various high roller sections and accomodations--as you do in Disney, but the overall effect is to create a world in which the accoutrements of "normal" life matter little.


A temporary cessation of class distinction was once provided by amusement parks in the US, and various festivals, carnivals, and other from of revelry throughout history. See Russian theorist M. Bakhtin's Rabelais and His World for a much fuller examination of these themes.


John