What is a society without a heroic dimension?
JEAN BAUDRILLARDGoverning today means giving acceptable signs of credibility. It is like advertising and it is the same effect that is achieved – commitment to a scenario.
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Everything is to be discovered, everything to be obliterated.
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Santa Barbara is a paradise; Disneyland is a paradise; the U.S. is a paradise. Paradise is just paradise. Mournful, monotonous, and superficial though it may be, it is paradise. There is no other.
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When you go to confession and entrust your sins to the safe-keeping of the priest, do you ever come back for them?
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This is not just a stock of affects or pleasure, but also the possibility of playing double or quits with the share you hold in the other’s heart.
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Only facing up to this situation in all its desperation can help us get out of it.
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It only takes a politician believing in what he says for the others to stop believing him.
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Cowardice and courage are never without a measure of affectation. Nor is love. Feelings are never true. They play with their mirrors.
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You are born modern, you do not become so.
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There is nothing more mysterious than a TV set left on in an empty room.
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This sarcastic festival reflects, rather, an infernal demand for revenge by children on the adult world.
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Deep down, the US, with its space, its technological refinement, its bluff good conscience, even in those spaces which it opens up for simulation, is the only remaining primitive society.
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To love someone is to isolate him from the world, wipe out every trace of him, dispossess him of his shadow, drag him into a murderous future. It is to circle around the other like a dead star and absorb him into a black light.
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If you say, I love you, then you have already fallen in love with language, which is already a form of break up and infidelity.
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What you have to do is enter the fiction of America, enter America as fiction. It is, indeed, on this fictive basis that it dominates the world.
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The order of the world is always right – such is the judgment of God. For God has departed, but he has left his judgment behind, the way the Cheshire Cat left his grin.
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