Governing today means giving acceptable signs of credibility. It is like advertising and it is the same effect that is achieved – commitment to a scenario.
JEAN BAUDRILLARDEverything is to be discovered, everything to be obliterated.
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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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Like dreams, statistics are a form of wish fulfillment.
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A negative judgment gives you more satisfaction than praise, provided it smacks of jealousy.
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This sarcastic festival reflects, rather, an infernal demand for revenge by children on the adult world.
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The abjection of our political situation is the only true challenge today.
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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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Seduction is always more singular and sublime than sex and it commands the higher price.
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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 very definition of the real becomes: that of which it is possible to give an equivalent reproduction.
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It is always the same: once you are liberated, you are forced to ask who you are.
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It is even stranger than a man talking to himself or a woman standing dreaming at her stove. It is as if another planet is communicating with you.
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Perhaps the world’s second worst crime is boredom. The first is being a bore.
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Driving is a spectacular form of amnesia.
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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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It only takes a politician believing in what he says for the others to stop believing him.
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