Postmodern Culture

Everything you want to know about postmodernism, postmodernity, and postmodern culture. Your guide to achieving postmodern literacy from The Notorious Dr. Rog and the class of ENG 335 at Rollins College.

Tuesday, September 26, 2006

PetalswiththeWind Baudrillard

Jean Baudrillard’s theory is so intricately woven, every single word, grammar rule, and punctuation mark is infused with meaning; one can read him a hundred times and it still will not be enough. Baudrillard declares, “Lockdown and control increase in direct proportion to (and undoubtedly even faster than) liberating potentialities” (479). The potency in potential is weakened, diluted, watered down; truth is distorted with simulated emotion prior to what could be an original experience. Sporadic various moments of truth is mixed in with fiction and fantasy, replacing reality (Baudrillard 456-457). Absorbed as science, simulacrum prevails, attempting to preserve appearances for the outsiders looking in, to entertain. Perspectives are sometimes all for show, benefiting the observers the most, rather than the genuine life “experimenter”. With the elimination of simulation, one can actually experience reality as it is happening, without predispositions. Emotions that simulate a reality before it even can occur, limiting energy, and potential. Simulated reality’s gatekeeper is fear, of what could be, to its fullest distinctive capacity. Learn from the past don’t live in it, and plan for the future, but don’t wish past it. The practice and refinement of “something” should come from self, not what value another puts on it, the balancing should comes from civilization itself, enabling the unique extension of self as a unifying factor for society. When someone can not live up to the ideals that others put before a person, because its against his/her inborn character, often he/she are persecuted to the extent of the simulating abnormal conditions, making that person harbor feelings of abnormalities, thus, project symptoms (Baudrillard 454-455). Emotional conditioning based on the value system of another is restraint in its greatest form.

What matters most, the perspective that you hold in one another’s eyes, the ones you love, or instead do you prefer to take the whole world to bed with you? Then, I have that option not to be an image or representation, that is my free will, my pursuit of happiness, no one else can decide for me, when they give me limited options, and not enabling the totality to occur, then I know that they are not revealing all, if they are not revealing all there is only a part they want me to see, an intended message, saturated in all the present limited choices, an ulterior motive in the presenting skewed facts especially around the presence of the words said and the absence of the words that are not mentioned. What lies beyond what is mentioned, in the land of the forbidden: the reasons why it is unmentionable, fear of particular actions of the party when everything is pointed out, analyzed, and examined; controlling them with options, options that another has determined befitting, unquestionably, with arrogant certainty, as if they supply totalizing conditions on what is happiness, an encompassing basis or cause for what is simulated.

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