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“Democracy's fatal flaw: There are more dumb people than smart people. Welcome to the new Dark Ages!”
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“Simultaneously, in the most complete ambiguity, they [media] propagate the brutal charm of the terrorist act, they are themselves terrorists, insofar as they themselves march to the tune of seduction.”
― Simulacra and Simulation
― Simulacra and Simulation
“The only weapon of power, its only strategy against this defection, is to reinject the real and the referential everywhere, to persuade us of the reality of the social, of the gravity of the economy and the finalities of production.”
― Simulacra and Simulation
― Simulacra and Simulation
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