Lucidity Pact Quotes

“But the die is not cast, since, though the real is growing as a result of a breaking of the symbolic pact between beings and things, that break gives rise, in its turn, to a tenacious resistance, the rejection of an objective world, a separate world.
Deep down, no one desires this objective face-to-face relation, even in the privileged role of subject.
What binds us to the real is a contract of reality. That is to say, a formal awareness of the rights and duties attaching to reality. But what we long for is a complicity and dual relation with beings and things - a pact, not a contract. Hence the temptation to condemn this contract - along with the social contract that ensues from it.
Against the moral contract that binds us to reality we must set a pact of intelligence and lucidity.
Having said this, on the verge of this dramatic changeover, we may still ask the question:
Is the end of history still a historical fact?
Is the disappearance of reality still a real fact?
No, it is an accomplished fact and, in the face of accomplished facts, it is not objectivity, but defiance that is in order.
We must defy reality as we must defy any accomplished fact.”
― Jean Baudrillard, The Intelligence of Evil or the Lucidity Pact