Baudrillard is (once again) right about postmodern society being predicated on simulation, as per-modern societies were predicated on symbolic exchange and modern on utilitarian production/consumption. par the simulation economy, everything must be readily "available" in
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hyper-reality in order for hyper consumption of the simulated to take place, hence the infinity of the internet. Baudrillard pointed out that we are no longer "hysterical" or "paranoid" like we were in the 19th cent, but now we live in a state of constant terror due to this
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proximity of all things. or as he says "a foul promiscuity which beleaguers and penetrates" the modern subject. like a schizophrenic "we are radically open to all things with no protection". as content, information, and entertainment invade the subject, we wonder aimlessly
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in the "desert of the real", and soon we are led down the road of craving more and more abstracted and degenerated simulations of the hyper-real....i mean honestly, why do you think catboys are a thing???
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