There is nothing funny about Halloween.
JEAN BAUDRILLARDWe shall never resolve the enigma of the relation between the negative foundations of greatness and that greatness itself.
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You are born modern, you do not become so.
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Television knows no night. It is perpetual day. TV embodies our fear of the dark, of night, of the other side of things.
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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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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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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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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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There is no aphrodisiac like innocence.
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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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I hesitate to deposit money in a bank. I am afraid I shall never dare to take it out again.
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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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The abjection of our political situation is the only true challenge today.
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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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Deep down, no one really believes they have a right to live. But this death sentence generally stays tucked away, hidden beneath the difficulty of living. If that difficulty is removed from time to time, death is suddenly there, unintelligibly.
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This sarcastic festival reflects, rather, an infernal demand for revenge by children on the adult world.
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