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"Theme parks like Disneyland now simulate the experiences of space travel, submarine voyages, driving on the Autobahn, strolling through the French Quarter in New Orleans, expeditions through the “Western Frontier,” nostalgic walks down “Main Street” America, and journeys into fairy tales and children’s stories. Baudrillard argues that Disneyland is a perfect model of a simulation. Disneyland is not just simply a simulated fantasyland, but instead it is present as fantasy, which, ironically, leads us to believe that the rest of America is real. Thus for Baudrillard, in contrast to the simulated malls and theme restaurants of everyday “real life,” Disneyland is more authentic than “reality” because it does not purport to be “real."

p. 669, Classical and Contemporary Sociological Theory, by Scott Appelrouth and Laura Desfor Edles

"‘In civilizations without ships, dreams dry up, espionnage takes the place of adventure and the police take the place of corsairs.’ (trans. mod.)"

Michel Foucault. (1998) [1984] ‘Different spaces’. In J. Faubion (ed.). Tr. Robert Hurley and others. Aesthetics, method and epistemology. The Essential Works of Michel Foucault 1954-1984. Volume Two Harmondsworth, Middlesex: Allen Lane, Penguin, p. 181.

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"Centuries of centuries and only in the present do things happen…."

“The Garden of Forking Paths,” Jorge Luis Borges

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"What does it mean to be virtuous? This is really quite a complex problem. If it is merely a habit, a repetition of what should be and therefore an animation of that, establishing a custom, a tradition, surely that is not virtue at all; then it is mechanical, then it has no meaning. So habit, whether it is good or bad, is not virtue and the mind function; within the groove of habit and tradition. Society has cultivated this, it has become habitual and therefore not free. So virtue goes with freedom, and one must understand the full significance of freedom; Order is necessary, complete, absolute, inward order and that is not possible if there is no virtue, and virtue is the natural outcome of freedom. But freedom is not doing what you want to do nor is it revolting against the established order, adopting a laissez faire attitude to life or becoming a hippy. Freedom comes into being only when we understand, not intellectually but actually, our every day life, our activity, our way of thought, the fact of our brutality, our callousness and indifference; it is to be actually in contact with our colossal selfishness."

Jiddu Krishnamurti, Talks in Europe 1968, Rome 3rd Public Talk, 17th March 1968 (via fuckyeahphilosophy)

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*Raises hand.*

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