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Episode #124 ... Simulacra and Simulation

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The Gulf War Is Not Taking Place

Baudriard: For anyone in the hundreds of countries around the world that are not actively witnessing and participating in the war, the full extent of the reality of the war is essentially not even taking place to them. The average person in one of these medea driven societies can just pop on the news, and through a series of flashing visual images and sound bites, they're going to get caught up on what's going on in the world to day. This is an example of how the simulation that we're in disconnects us from reality. What it depicts is an tation of real world processes and events, not reality itself. We're talking about a collision point of thousands of different

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