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#412 - London and World Assurance (Patreon)

Published:
2023-03-20 21:43:04
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2024-06

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For nearly 20 years, one libertarian businessman with a wildly dangerous theme park held the state of New Jersey under his thumb. We discuss the documentary CLASS ACTION PARK (2020) and its uneasy mix of nostalgia and condemnation for Action Park.

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Ave

As a lifelong NJ guy I can attest to the weird stockholm syndrom-like fetishization of this place amongst residents (especially gen-x men, so people in my cohort). I also have an inkling, which may just be projection since I never went there, that a lot of the nostalgia for the place is actually virtual and can be sourced to later-day documentaries and viral articles about it. Every time I talk to someone who says how great it was, a part of me wonders if they actually went there, and even if they did, if the appeal isn't a sort of misdirected reaction against the increasing regimentation and regulation of daily life for kids here.

Michael and Us
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That is a really interesting comment, so thank you for sharing. It adds a whole other dimension if the nostalgia itself, or even just a part of it, is actually mediated by something other than experience. Fascinating to think of the park as a floating signifier for an imagined Before Time when we all weren't so coddled, etc. I strongly suspect that's a big part of it! - Luke

Shane

2 things: Intro on Elementary School Will and Luke was priceless, as a 3rd grade teacher (read: pin cushion) myself.  I show my class 2001: Space Odyssey and LOTR clips, play them songs like Dylan's "Buckets of Rain" and the "Naatu Naatu" performance while dancing in my own suspenders; I'm basically the coolest teacher in the school...but yeah they're only power is to try to hurt my feelings any way they can!  I had much thinner skin when I started, but was also a little shit in 3rd grade. On a much darker note...this documentary reminded me of the now defunct Schlitterbahn water park in Kansas City, KS, and the Verruckt water slide built and marketed in all to unfortunately the same manner as Action Park's attractions.  A young boy was killed on this water slide, shortly after it opened, and I wonder if his father wasn't a state legislator (R), if the park would have been closed so quickly.  This was in 2014.  The park took years to be deconstructed and is now an industrial zone.  The ending of the Class Action Park film with Gen Xers praising how fun and dangerous things used to be rang extra haunting.