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Too late for a Naziworld park ?
Perhaps it is too late for a Naziworld park? "As the locus of some of the most terrible governmental crimes in history, Berlin has had a special meaning for the 20th century -- but the century is now over" (Wolf 1998, 207).
In the new world will the sources of evil be so localized?
Van Ommen [the head of the Sony development team] derides Berlin's leaders for their lack of worldliness. For him, Europe is a provincial ideal. . . . Berlin's task is to orient itself toward these international flows of money, images, and people. In this version of Berlin, the city is not a gateway to anywhere. Sony is the gateway. . . . Van Ommen knows that Berlin's future is being made in a new kind of place, one that has no specific locality. Wolf 1998, 206
Here the issue of place versus system* comes at us hard. Will the city be reduced to a lifestyle niche and an infrastructure for attractions constructed by omnipresent corporations? Could such a world need a Naziland as a warning? Would a theme experience serve this purpose, or would the theming neutralize the desired effect?