“ There is nothing more mysterious than a TV set left on in an empty room. It is even stranger than a man talking to himself or a woman standing dreaming at her stove. It is as if another planet is communicating with you. ”
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“ Everywhere today, in fact, the ideology of competition gives way to a 'philosophy' of selffulfillment. In a more integrated society individuals no longer compete for the possession of goods, they actualize themselves in consumption. ”
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“ Deep down, no one really believes they have a right to live. But this death sentence generally stays cosily tucked away, hidden beneath the difficulty of living. If that difficulty is removed from time to time, death is suddenly there, unintelligibly. ”
- Jean Baudrillard- Copy
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“ The media represents world that is more real than reality that we can experience. People lose the ability to distinguish between reality and fantasy. They also begin to engage with the fantasy without realizing what it really is. They seek happiness and fulfilment through the simulacra of reality, e.g. media and avoid the contact/interaction with the real world. ”
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“ A society which allows an abominable event to burgeon from its dung heap and grow on its surface is like a man who lets a fly crawl unheeded across his face or saliva dribble from his mouth — either epileptic or dead. ”
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“ As the end of the century approaches, all our culture is like the culture of flies at the beginning of winter. Having lost their agility, dreamy and demented, they turn slowly about the window in the first icy mists of morning. They give themselves a last wash and brush-up, their oscillated eyes roll, and they fall down the curtains. ”
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“ We are no longer in a state of growth; we are in a state of excess. We are living in a society of excrescence. The boil is growing out of control, recklessly at cross purposes with itself, its impacts multiplying as the causes disintegrate. ”
- Jean Baudrillard- Copy
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“ It is not enough for theory to describe and analyse, it must itself be an event in the universe it describes. In order to do this theory must partake of and become the acceleration of this logic. It must tear itself from all referents and take pride only in the future… ”
- Jean Baudrillard- Copy
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“ The abjection of our political situation is the only true challenge today. Only facing up to this situation in all its desperation can help us get out of it. ”
- Jean Baudrillard- Copy
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“ One of life's primal situations; the game of hide and seek. Oh, the delicious thrill of hiding while the others come looking for you, the delicious terror of being discovered, but what panic when, after a long search, the others abandon you! You mustn't hide too well… ”
- Jean Baudrillard- Copy
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“ A negative judgment gives you more satisfaction than praise, provided it smacks of jealousy. ”
- Jean Baudrillard- Copy
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“ Deep down, the US, with its space, its technological refinement, its bluff good conscience, even in those spaces which it opens up for simulation, is the only remaining primitive society. ”
- Jean Baudrillard- Copy
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“ Driving is a spectacular form of amnesia. Everything is to be discovered, everything to be obliterated. ”
- Jean Baudrillard- Copy
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“ Driving is a spectacular form of amnesia. Everything is to be discovered, everything to be obliterated. ”
- Jean Baudrillard- Copy
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“ As for freedom, it will soon cease to exist in any shape or form. Living will depend upon absolute obedience to a strict set of arrangements, which it will no longer be possible to transgress. The air traveler is not free. In the future, life's passengers will be even less so: they will travel through their lives fastened to their seats. ”
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“ A negative judgment gives you more satisfaction than praise, provided it smacks of jealousy. ”
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“ We shall never resolve the enigma of the relation between the negative foundations of greatness and that greatness itself. ”
- Jean Baudrillard- Copy
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“ Governing today means giving acceptable signs of credibility. It is like advertising and it is the same effect that is achieved — commitment to a scenario. ”
- Jean Baudrillard- Copy
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“ If there is a species which is more maltreated than children, then it must be their toys, which they handle in an incredibly off-hand manner. Toys are thus the end point in that long chain in which all the conditions of despotic high-handedness are in play which enchain beings one to another, from one species to another — cruel divinities to their sacrificial victims, from masters to slaves, from adults to children, and from children to their objects. ”
- Jean Baudrillard- Copy
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“ A negative judgment gives you more satisfaction than praise, provided it smacks of jealousy. ”
- Jean Baudrillard- Copy
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“ If you are prepared to accept the consequences of your dreams then you must still regard America today with the same naive enthusiasm as the generations that discovered the New World. ”
- Jean Baudrillard- Copy
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“ A society which allows an abominable event to burgeon from its dung heap and grow on its surface is like a man who lets a fly crawl unheeded across his face or saliva dribble from his mouth — either epileptic or dead. ”
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“ If there is a species which is more maltreated than children, then it must be their toys, which they handle in an incredibly off-hand manner. Toys are thus the end point in that long chain in which all the conditions of despotic high-handedness are in play which enchain beings one to another, from one species to another — cruel divinities to their sacrificial victims, from masters to slaves, from adults to children, and from children to their objects. ”
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“ The world is not dialectical — it is sworn to extremes, not to equilibrium, sworn to radical antagonism, not to reconciliation or synthesis. This is also the principle of evil. ”
- Jean Baudrillard- Copy
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“ You need an infinite stretch of time ahead of you to start to think, infinite energy to make the smallest decision. The world is getting denser. The immense number of useless projects is bewildering. Too many things have to be put in to balance up an uncertain scale… ”
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“ What you have to do is enter the fiction of America, enter America as fiction. It is, indeed, on this fictive basis that it dominates the world. ”
- Jean Baudrillard- Copy
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“ It only takes a politician believing in what he says for the others to stop believing him. ”
- Jean Baudrillard- Copy
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“ Mistakes, scandals, and failures no longer signal catastrophe. The crucial thing is that they be made credible, and that the public be made aware of the efforts being expended in that direction. The "marketing" immunity of governments is similar to that of the major brands of washing powder. ”
- Jean Baudrillard- Copy
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