Theme Parks: A simpler theme category is "Theme Restaurants." In the US there are restaurants like "57th Squadron" and "94th Squadron" which are restaurants on country airport runways with a "WWII fighter squadron" theme. On the outside patio you look at personal jets landing and taking off. Inside you can admire all the antique black and white framed pictures of framed WWII pilots--many of them killed in the war. I love that place, and the THEME allows your spirits to float above the actual past realities of say . . . 20 year-old airmen being shot down and burning to death before crashing into the ocean. "Themes" can strip out the unpleasant, grittier parts.

"Cruises" like "Princess Cruises" also promote "Theme Life." A week on a cruise ship is like a week "Within A Theme" . . . a week of Food, Drink, Sea, Air, Light Entertainment, Maybe Sex. The Reality of the Support System--the army of workers living "below deck" and enduring a semi-slave work schedule at low wages is hidden from you.

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