Disney land is not an analogy for america, it IS america, a magnificent fantasy land where dreams do in fact indisputably come true. Dreams are our post-modern landscape, the art of the surrealist was just a shadow, unrecognizable. Dreams are the true home of mythology, of which all fiction is but a parody sublimated in iconography and idolatry, psychological horror and wet dream all at once. In such a society the tables all turn. The real becomes the myth, unattainable and unknown legend. Endless layers, a mirror into a mirror. Sport, once the analogy of the hunt has become the hunt "sportsman" hunt, ball players "kill" the competition. A constant message of the mind back to itself, the endless internal monologue. The feedback loop the perfect analogy for modern reality, a remake of a remake, the post-modern, the aftermath of the modern, forever like waking up from a dream. Men become gods and gods men, all mortality capable of transcendence, rags to riches stories, like a greek legend or the fall of satan. Eve bites the apple as a natural progress of the plot arc, without which she could not exercise the existential demons of her mind which she is incapable of leaving. Trapped in this labyrinth, a black void of rectilinear confusion, forever pursued by the minotaur, half man half beast. But then, the subtle turn of phrase, the minotaur does not exist, he was improbable at best even to the most naive. We are the minotaur, we are the stalking beast, the labyrinth is in our minds.
The joke, what really makes the labyrinth a perfect analogy for the mind and the reality of our lives (dreams?) is that as improbable as it may seem, as impossible as the myth seemed for centuries, archaeologists have unearthed a labyrinth on the island of crete complete with evidence pointing to actual human sacrifice by a cult of bull headed priests. The myth made real by the people of crete, made myth again by the greeks and centuries of repetitions,and then made real once more by modern archaeology. Perhaps there is hope for the resurrection of jesus yet. Im sure you have seen the documentaries, mosses did in fact part the red sea. Jericos walls where in fact destroyed by atonal cacophony. Mohammad in fact stepped off a rock and rose to heaven. No modern man would believe it even if they saw it of course. The shitty cellphone video footage would be proven fake almost immediately. And it would be that very "proof" of improbability that would goad on the true believers further and further into their faith. Again, a negative reality defining the "real". All ethical transgressions become permissible in the surreal reality of dreams. Who can draw a line in the sand? Who can point to a line of demarcation? We now prove the line by its absence. "Prove me wrong!" we say to the minotaur.
