Simulacra & Simulations pt 2

I read and re-read that thing, and I think it's brilliant. I ignore all the Marxist talk, I realize that the continental and post-modern philosophers all have that bent, and so it doesn't distract me, or disturb me. I think I understand his point about the loss of reality, the loss of a point of reference for power. Although I think it is most like a loss of some determinate reference for truth.
Nothing is as it seems and everything seems to be what it is not.

It reminds me of the last words uttered by Hassan i Sabbah, "Nothing is true, everything is permitted." It's like we've really come to that, I guess it's hyperreality, and it's here.

The essay gives me a deepening sense of alarm. It explicated something I've sensed for a long time, but it's strike is potent, it gives me a start.
At various times, various people have expressed that same kind of feeling, that overwhelming lack of reality, multiple ambiguous truths floating around, the smoke and mirrors, the audacity of media, the absence of sanity and so on. However, Baudrillard tells it in a very succint way. He is accusing and incendiary, but he has reason to be. I get caught up in him. His points are well made, his language is fascinating.
That's good philosophy.