Television knows no night. It is perpetual day. TV embodies our fear of the dark, of night, of the other side of things.
JEAN BAUDRILLARDDeep 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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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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It only takes a politician believing in what he says for the others to stop believing him.
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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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What is a society without a heroic dimension?
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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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We shall never resolve the enigma of the relation between the negative foundations of greatness and that greatness itself.
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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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The abjection of our political situation is the only true challenge today.
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At male strip shows, it is still the women that we watch, the audience of women and their eager faces. They are more obscene than if they were dancing naked themselves.
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The great person is ahead of their time, the smart make something out of it, and the blockhead, sets themselves against it.
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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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Americans may have no identity, but they do have wonderful teeth.
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The sad thing about artificial intelligence is that it lacks artifice and therefore intelligence.
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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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The world is not dialectical – it is sworn to extremes, not to equilibrium, sworn to radical antagonism, not to reconciliation or synthesis. This is also the principle of evil.
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