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Help! I really need to understand what is written here: Jean Baudrillard....?

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"In this system, death itself shines by virtue of its absence. (The Bologna train station, the Oktoberfest in Munich: the dead are annulled by indifference, that is where terrorism is the involuntary accomplice of the whole system, not politically, but in the accelerated form of indifference that it contributes to imposing.) Death no longer has a stage, neither phantasmatic nor political, on which to represent itself, to play itself out, either a ceremonial or a violent one. And this is the victory of the other nihilism, of the other terrorism, that of the system.

There is no longer a stage, not even the minimal illusion that makes events capable of adopting the force of reality-no more stage either of mental or political solidarity: what do Chile, Biafra, the boat people, Bologna, or Poland matter? All of that comes to be annihilated on the television screen. We are in the era of events without consequences (and of theories without consequences).

There is no more hope for meaning. And without a doubt this is a good thing: meaning is mortal. But that on which it has imposed its ephemeral reign, what it hoped to liquidate in order to impose the reign of the Enlightenment, that is, appearances, they, are immortal, invulnerable to the nihilism of meaning or of non-meaning itself.

This is where seduction begins."

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  1. A transcendence of our ideologies

    para. 1_thesis

    system + a severance of death religiousness = victory (over "thought")

    para 2. expansion

    victory = apathy(positive connotation)because terms specified(ex. meaning = wrong therefor non meaning equals right) in para.2

    on condition that you agree with their terms

    note so many fallacies to choose from!

    para 3. conclusion

    apathy= expansion of thought/consciousness

    soo...

    because society has gotten rid of death as a mystical corner post of society.It can leave the world of "illusion" (p2) and enter a world of apathy and indifference or as they state "non meaning". This "non meaning" will transcend our meaningful  existence(pun intended) and enter a world that is beyond such things. this is where seduction begins (cryptic with out more text).

    personally, I find this a very very weak argument but alas how else can we strive for the unreachable goals.      



      

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