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The Role of Consciousness and the Evolution of the Gospel of Marxism | James Lindsay

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Baudrillard's Critique of the Gulf War

Baudrillard wrote a book in the 90s called be prepared for shock and awe he says it wasn't a war at all it was an atrocity masquerading as a war that which people called a gulf war was mostly a production by politicians and cnn real events happened real bombs went off real people were killed real things occurred. The entire war was on false pretenses did not happen as played out and it was a television production images fake we had our first fake war, i'm saying what baudrillard said that we were presented an image of these things that is not the reality It is a hyper real as he called it projection of what really occurred which cannot be neutral

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