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ycombinete•28 minutes ago
I always enjoy the moment in The Matrix where Neo flops a hollowed out copy of this book open, to fish out some illicit mini-disc he’s storing in it.
euroderf•about 1 hour ago
I always liked his observation that Disneyland was created in order to make the rest of America seem real.
SanjayMehta•about 1 hour ago
Fun fact: one of the lawyers who helped buy land for Disney was ex-CIA.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Helliwell

Der_Einzige•11 minutes ago
Another fun fact, most of the success of critical theory, post modernissm, "neo-marxism", left-wing intellectuals, etc is because of the three letters.

They successfully kept western leftists overpaid and spewing fashionable nonsense in the academy instead of acting in the world. The fact that left-wing intellectuals are so trash is engineered on purpose.

Jacques Lacan and his fake ass math equations in particular can only be explained this way as a literal psyop on academia.

Chomsky was in bed deep with Epstein and the left has turned themselves into a pretzel trying to explain it . Foucault, Sartre, De Beauvoir were defenders of pedophilia. Foucault might actually have been a pedophile! Arendt (a jew) was fornicating with a Nazi (Heidegger) and ties herself into a pretzel defending it (after also defending American segregation for some reason???), Deleuze killed himself. Althusser went crazy and killed his wife. Wilheilm Reich went just as loony related to the "orgone" machine (despite mass psychology of fascism being a decent-ish book).

Please just leave this decadent and degenerate misapplication of "philosophy" in the dust-bin where it belongs. Baudrillard is part of this.

:

https://thephilosophicalsalon.com/the-cia-reads-french-theor...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Who_Paid_the_Piper%3F

https://www.amazon.com/-/he/Cultural-Cold-War-World-Letters/...

https://jacobin.com/2018/08/fbi-infiltration-new-left-aoki-s...

https://www.counterpunch.org/2016/08/26/in-the-shadow-of-the...

https://www.nytimes.com/2013/09/09/us/when-sartre-and-camus-...

https://viewpointmag.com/2021/11/08/the-fbi-file-on-foucault...

https://csuepress.columbusstate.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?arti...

https://www.radicalphilosophy.com/article/walking-through-wa...

https://opiniojuris.org/2009/08/04/the-idf-is-deleuzian/

https://theopolisinstitute.com/leithart_post/deleuzian-war/

thin_carapace•5 minutes ago
going to respond to your other comment here since it got killed:

i think a lot of art could be described as fashionable nonsense, and hyperreality is an artistic philosophy. its interesting to contemplate the root concept of a map overflowing its territory, however consuming long tracts of resulting thought is questionably useful. i didnt mind reading some of baudrillard's cool thoughts books, application of hyperreality was well translated via small vignettes of thinking. but i couldnt finish the book discussed here, it's still sitting somewhere bookmarked.

david927•8 days ago
Suddenly, wildly, pertinent to today's world.
_def•about 1 hour ago
Or the complete opposite ;-)