Jean Baudrillard's 'Simulacra and Simulation' was apparantly required reading for the cast of 'The Matrix'.
This is a long lecture, but if you are doing fuck all else, it is worth the listen.
https://v.nostr.build/Z5xdQ.mp4
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Discussion
Post-modernism is semantics.
similar themes of "anti-definition" and surrealism all from the intelligencia who perpetuate and ensure their own survival inside their fiat government school system. (simple darwinism)
what can we determine in this "hyper-real" world?
well what language are we using? what base of reference? is zero real? is math wrong now? is bitcoin not real because it is digital? these are the same people who prefer government paper and shiny yellow rocks as money. they are lambs led to slaughter.
No frame of reference.
-Mentioned loss of leisure time but not taxation and inflation. The base of reference should be the tyrannical State vs Liberty.
denying the obvious existence of the totalitarian state- instead excusing it as some kind of surrealist happenstance where we are somehow NOT to blame for the murder and desolation of the "gulf war". -try telling all the millions of people bombed out in the middle east how they need to "define the real" after their kid was killed by the fiat war machine. TO THIS DAY THE WAR CONTINUES.
Use whatever projections you need to, find your own WILLPOWER to learn by pattern- consequences of actions. determine the best way to end the fiat state. we will see "the real" soon enough if we do not.
'Simulcara and Simulation' seems to be missing from my shelf .. I'll be having words with the appropriate family members
I always enjoy Rick Roderick lectures, he had a 'way' about him 🤙🏼