- 05 May 2007 11:26
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"Their economy produces things cheaper than ours, so we need to send them some manufactured viruses to level the playing field." - Freedom and Democracy Inc.
According to Jean Baudrillard, today's media viewer is no longer able to distinguish between 'reality' and 'fantasy' because of the overwhelming number of visual and oral stimulai that he comes into contact with each day.
If this is true, our civilisation may be on the verge of serious decline because of this. A people that can't tell the difference between World War 2 and a video game, between car commercials and extinction, is hopefully not going to last for very long.
Some of Baudrillard's fave words include:
"simulacra" = copies of copies of copies...
"hyperreality" = a state of consciousness where real and fantasy mix and become the same thing (infotainment taps into this social phenomenon, as does reality TV)
"semiotics" = the study of signs and languages of signs
Some of his fave concepts include: the deterioration of meaning, the impossibility of exchange between fake economies and real ones, and the fabrication of history.
Here's a link
What do you think of this guy?
If this is true, our civilisation may be on the verge of serious decline because of this. A people that can't tell the difference between World War 2 and a video game, between car commercials and extinction, is hopefully not going to last for very long.
Some of Baudrillard's fave words include:
"simulacra" = copies of copies of copies...
"hyperreality" = a state of consciousness where real and fantasy mix and become the same thing (infotainment taps into this social phenomenon, as does reality TV)
"semiotics" = the study of signs and languages of signs
Some of his fave concepts include: the deterioration of meaning, the impossibility of exchange between fake economies and real ones, and the fabrication of history.
Here's a link
What do you think of this guy?
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"Their economy produces things cheaper than ours, so we need to send them some manufactured viruses to level the playing field." - Freedom and Democracy Inc.