What if banana was equal to chair?
Baudrillard predicted their grand plan.
Simulacra and Simulation breaks the sign-order into four stages:
The first stage is a faithful image/copy, where we believe, and it may even be correct, that a sign is a "reflection of a profound reality" (pg 6), this is a good appearance, in what Baudrillard called "the sacramental order".
The second stage is perversion of reality, this is where we come to believe the sign to be an unfaithful copy, which "masks and denatures" reality as an "evil appearance—it is of the order of maleficence". Here, signs and images do not faithfully reveal reality to us, but can hint at the existence of an obscure reality which the sign itself is incapable of encapsulating.
The third stage masks the absence of a profound reality, where the sign pretends to be a faithful copy, but it is a copy with no original. Signs and images claim to represent something real, but no representation is taking place and arbitrary images are merely suggested as things which they have no relationship to. Baudrillard calls this the "order of sorcery", a regime of semantic algebra where all human meaning is conjured artificially to appear as a reference to the (increasingly) hermetic truth.
The fourth stage is pure simulacrum, in which the simulacrum has no relationship to any reality whatsoever. Here, signs merely reflect other signs and any claim to reality on the part of images or signs is only of the order of other such claims. This is a regime of total equivalency, where cultural products need no longer even pretend to be real in a naĂŻve sense, because the experiences of consumers' lives are so predominantly artificial that even claims to reality are expected to be phrased in artificial, "hyperreal" terms. Any naĂŻve pretension to reality as such is perceived as bereft of critical self-awareness, and thus as oversentimental.
This happened nearby.
http:// www.sun-sentinel.com/news/crime/fl-reg-naked-bank-robber-insanity-20180131-story.html
“Mr. Sperber stated that a chip installed in his head compelled him to commit the bank robbery to further his career as a comedian,” prosecutor Donald Chase told the judge.
Bank robber strips naked and runs down Las Olas Boulevard tossing money, FBI says
The prosecution and defense both agreed that the federal prison doctors’ finding that Sperber has schizoaffective disorder and bipolar disorder was accurate. The condition is similar to schizophrenia and often includes hallucinations or delusions and episodes of mania and depression.
perber has an extensive documented history of serious mental illness and repeated hospitalizations since 2014, defense attorney Michael Gottlieb told the judge. The Fort Lauderdale man was legally insane at the time of the offense and could not understand that what he was doing was wrong, the experts found.
“This is a very tragic situation. His family knows he’s a kind and gentle person and they know his soul,” Gottlieb told the South Florida Sun Sentinel. “They know he couldn’t have done this if he was in his right mind.”
After weeks of treatment and taking different medication, Sperber was found competent to stand trial but both sides agreed the evidence was clear and there was nothing to argue about in court.
Sperber’s family said he has also been diagnosed on the autism spectrum and did not speak until he was four years old. He is also very intelligent and was attending college when he was first diagnosed.
>How many young men at age 16 got the opportunity to go to Washington, D.C. and have the photo opportunity of shaking hands with President John F. Kennedy? A few years later, college student Clinton marched in communist protest demonstrations.
There are a lot of young men in that picture.
They are engineered to require an amino acid they can't produce. They won't dive/propogate unless they are being fed that specific protein/amino. They die pretty quickly w/o it and are used in situ remediation projects all the time. They work well.
i hope not