Only facing up to this situation in all its desperation can help us get out of it.
JEAN BAUDRILLARDWhat is a society without a heroic dimension?
More Jean Baudrillard Quotes
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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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There is nothing more mysterious than a TV set left on in an empty room.
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Driving is a spectacular form of amnesia.
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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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There is nothing funny about Halloween.
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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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Like dreams, statistics are a form of wish fulfillment.
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The real is not only what can be reproduced, but that which is always already reproduced. The hyper real.
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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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I hesitate to deposit money in a bank. I am afraid I shall never dare to take it out again.
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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.
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Perhaps the world’s second worst crime is boredom. The first is being a bore.
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The sad thing about artificial intelligence is that it lacks artifice and therefore intelligence.
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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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Seduction is always more singular and sublime than sex and it commands the higher price.
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