Only facing up to this situation in all its desperation can help us get out of it.
JEAN BAUDRILLARDWhen 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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Driving is a spectacular form of amnesia.
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The sad thing about artificial intelligence is that it lacks artifice and therefore intelligence.
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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 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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Everything 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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There is nothing more mysterious than a TV set left on in an empty room.
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A negative judgment gives you more satisfaction than praise, provided it smacks of jealousy.
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The abjection of our political situation is the only true challenge today.
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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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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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In the same way that we need statesmen to spare us the abjection of exercising power, we need scholars to spare us the abjection of learning.
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Americans may have no identity, but they do have wonderful teeth.
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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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