1. Someone should re-read Jean Baudrillard's "The Gulf War Did Not Take Place" in light of Trump's Syrian adventure.
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Yes. Interesting read.
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I always hated that title, from time I first saw that book (as a teen in 1980s).
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3. But Baudrillard's basic thesis (Gulf War was a televised "reality" spectacle even though real people died) is cogent & prophetic.
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4. I'm all for historical analogies & explanations of Trumpism, but there's also a need to situate in our period, in post-modernity.
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