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[kleenexwoman]

Moar Baudrillard in class. Did you know that modern society is a complete illusion and that things that are marked as simulations (i.e., Disneyworld) are just there to complete the illusion that everything else is not an illusion?

I feel like a jerk for not speaking up more in class, because it's a seminar and because I want to show that I understand these things, but people keep bringing up "The Matrix" and I keep wanting to go, "Yeah, I used to know this guy, and um." I don't think my experiences in the first ever postmodernist cult would be appropriate seminar material. (Postmodernist messianistic, anyway, which is strangely logical when you look at it in terms of human movements.)

At least now I know why obviously imperfect copies often unnerve me.

All of this mainly makes me want to watch "Wonder Showzen."

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[josephwaldman.livejournal.com]

Did you know that modern society is a complete illusion and that things that are marked as simulations (i.e., Disneyworld) are just there to complete the illusion that everything else is not an illusion?

It is? Whooooa. And all this time I thought it was just that there are many among us who feel that life is but a joke.

[kleenexwoman.livejournal.com]

There are many here among us who feel that life is but a joke. And if you don't, you're just not paying attention.

[josephwaldman.livejournal.com]

Either that or locked up in your bedroom getting higher than a kite with Messrs. Hendrix & Zimmerman (who's one of the biggest assholes of the past fifty years but had one or two songs I really like).

[beganwithayes.livejournal.com]

i just saw this on the WP friends page and it made me laugh. in one of my psych seminars, people always want to talk about alcoholism. it always comes back to alcoholism. anyway, mind if i friend you?

[kleenexwoman.livejournal.com]

WP? ...oh, weddingplans. Wow, I belong to so many communities I don't remember them all. Sure, you can friend me! :D I like new friends.

In one psych class I had last year, the prof always brought everything back to anorexia. We'd be talking about personality disorders, addiction, schizophrenia...and somehow he'd always find a way to link it to anorexia. I never found out why.

[dormant-shadow.livejournal.com]

Yes, actually, I did know all of that--I started reading Baudrillard about three years ago. :-)

[kleenexwoman.livejournal.com]

You are enlightened. Why am I always the last one to discover that reality as we know it is, um, not?