Baudrillard say
it is dangerous to unmask images, since they dissimulate the fact that there is nothing behind them).
What does this mean?
Sir, the questions can be stupid but they must remain coherent please
Gonna need to unpack this one a bit more, Cheese.
Updated
Unpack more.
Okay, so Baudrillard’s thing was the idea he called “hyperreality”: images, symbols, branding, and other representations that penetrate deep enough into our consciousness that they become more real to us than the physical world. In the above quote, I think he’s describing the effects of removing or destroying these hyperreal symbols; we’re left not with physical reality but with nothing, which is damaging psychologically.
BUT I haven’t read Baudrillard in detail so take my analysis with a grain of salt. I’m viewing this though the lens of Platonic forms and the whole cave allegory and all that because it was the closest philosophical concept that’s both familiar to me and seemed to map.
Bro read “No Stupid Questions” and took it as a challenge
Zeitgeist is one word, genius. Also you’re an asshole
Sorry man. I thought you were shitposting. I didn’t see the edit to include the Baudrillard reference at the time
Ill allow it lol, but i rarely shitpost outside of shittyasks (despite people constantly thinkig i am shitposting or that i have a particular prevalence for that kind of thing. I just think of weird shit, theres often little to no bad faith required)
