Simulations
I will have to admit that Jean Baudrillard's description of what a simulation is was quite confusing. "Simulation is no longer that of a territory, a referential being or a substance. It is the generation by models of a real without origin or reality: hyperreal. The territory no longer precedes the map, nor survives it. Henceforth, it is map that precedes the territoy," (Baudrillard pg2).
At most I can understand that a simulation is something fake or a fasade put on by someone or something. The Disneyland and prison metaphors work quite well. Prisons are meant to hide the fact that the American penial system actually works when in fact all it does is make more hardened criminals even more hardened. Disneyland is a simulation of a false reality. Some old man's sick and twisted dreams made into a false reality that is believed by not only children but also by adults, even if it is for a short period of time. Some say life is just a simulation of death. A fake world created just to entertain us until that special time comes when we get to meet our maker. If this is true then i rather laugh with the sinners then cry with the saints, the sinners are just more fun. Only the good die young!
At most I can understand that a simulation is something fake or a fasade put on by someone or something. The Disneyland and prison metaphors work quite well. Prisons are meant to hide the fact that the American penial system actually works when in fact all it does is make more hardened criminals even more hardened. Disneyland is a simulation of a false reality. Some old man's sick and twisted dreams made into a false reality that is believed by not only children but also by adults, even if it is for a short period of time. Some say life is just a simulation of death. A fake world created just to entertain us until that special time comes when we get to meet our maker. If this is true then i rather laugh with the sinners then cry with the saints, the sinners are just more fun. Only the good die young!