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To dissimulate is to pretend not to have what one has. To simulate is to feign to have what one doesn’t have. One implies a presence, the other an absence. But it is more complicated than that because simulating is not pretending: “Whoever fakes and illness can simply stay in bed and make everyone believe he is ill. Whoever simulates an illness produces in himself some of the symptoms” (Littré). Therefore, pretending, or dissimulating, leaves the principle of reality intact: the difference is always clear, it is simply masked, whereas simulation threatens the difference between the “true” and the “false,” the “real” and the “imaginary.”
-Jean Baudrillard
The first, and (God willing), last emo post in this journal
The above passage keeps popping into my head and applying itself in an emotional context. I realize now that it is because I have spent the majority of my life on one particular side of the fence (simulation). Now, the symptoms have become real and I have no means through which to mask the reality principle. Dissimulation is a clean fix for most parties concerned, yet I remain stranded, adrift until something new comes along.
Music: Wire-Chairs Missing