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White Noise: Postmodern Lit, Consumer Culture, & Thanatophobia

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The Underside of American Society

I kept thinking about what we are as I as I read it because not only are they treating reality as a simulation but afterwards they remain around the town to keep watch if the contaminant levels are diminishing and also running other simulations. When an actual sort of contamination happens people don't react as they simulate it and prepare to do so at by that point you that those things are intrinsically lost like the simulation is of far higher value than reality or possible reality can ever be. yeah I think it's sort of this kind of prelude to the larger discussions of climate change that you that aren't here.

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