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elle
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"Want to match my freak? Reality shift into another dimension? Schizo-post your way to internet-sanctioned brainwashing? Nowadays, it’s not a matter of what exists, but what you choose to exist as. A recent report suggests that Gen Z don’t bother to fact-check information they see online, instead choosing to believe what like-minded peers or trusted influencers say – basically, what they see as important. Plugged into our personal psy-opticons we create our own mental maps to justify our own narratives, like Terrance McKenna’s ‘self-transforming’ machine elves on a DMT trip. It’s not a cosmic jump, then, to feel like everything is a psyop, everyone is a crisis actor." kind of a depressing but accurate essay about our increasingly hypersimulated "realities". enjoy! https://www.dazeddigital.com/life-culture/article/63208/1/why-does-nothing-feel-real-anymore-donald-trump-prada
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good morning baudrillard. it's usually when a loved one suffers a near death miss that "nothing is real" type of theorizations wash themselves under the tentacles of reality. we had the same theorists back in 2000s across our lil Humanities dept: "Nothing feels real anymore." It entirely depends on the individual.
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definitely – i think each individual is their own parallel reality. therefore nothing is "real" but then also everything is real and there are just overlaps in realness that keep things together i think the essay is suggesting that the 4th stage of simulacrum, with maybe less consensus of "realities," goes much deeper and spreads much faster and wider with the endless online streams of "information" in our screen-based lives (⌒_⌒;)
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