The philosopher Jean Baudrillard critiqued late modernism in 1981, - TopicsExpress



          

The philosopher Jean Baudrillard critiqued late modernism in 1981, arguing that wed replaced meaning and reality with signs and symbols, to the extent that symbols have become reality. We slip toward seeing our online representation of ourselves as who we are. Our public figures public faces become their only face to us. And so we lose our anchor to real, human things like truth and goodness and beauty and faith and love, instead replacing them with things that look good and make us feel good. The Hunger Games stories are a biting critique and giant flashing warning sign that says that this kind of substitution of appearances for reality puts us on the fast track to tyranny. They draw multiple parallels to the bread-and-circuses culture of Rome at its decadent height; keep the people fed and entertained, and theyll do whatever you want.
Posted on: Sun, 24 Nov 2013 03:44:53 +0000

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