Themed places involve grammar as well as decor and architectural effects.
You try to dignify themed places that are nothing but thin simulacra.
We keep coming back to your claim that places have been thinned out, and I keep saying the thinning is only one aspect amid more complexity and thickness in the places. There is a thickness of context and connection even in thin and diluted places. "Deep" effects on our identities and self-conceptions don't demand corresponding depths (whatever that would mean) in the places and things. Thick nets rather than singular depths.
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(c) David Kolb, 1 August 2001