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.
JEAN BAUDRILLARDWhat is a society without a heroic dimension?
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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 funny about Halloween.
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The abjection of our political situation is the only true challenge today.
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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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You are born modern, you do not become so.
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Cowardice and courage are never without a measure of affectation. Nor is love. Feelings are never true. They play with their mirrors.
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This sarcastic festival reflects, rather, an infernal demand for revenge by children on the adult world.
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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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Seduction is always more singular and sublime than sex and it commands the higher price.
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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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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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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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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 real is not only what can be reproduced, but that which is always already reproduced. The hyper real.
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The sad thing about artificial intelligence is that it lacks artifice and therefore intelligence.
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