Status Updates From Simulacra and Simulation (T...

"The war is no less atrocious for being only a simulacrum. ... What no longer exists is the adversity of the adversaries, the reality of antagonistic causes, the ideological seriousness of war. And also the reality of victory or defeat, war being a process that triumphs well beyond these
appearances."

Mr. Baudrillard is cooking David Lynch rn

I -think- the point of this is to point out circular reasoning and social engineering. It's just doing so in a convoluted, overly wordy manner.