simulacrum more real

Baudrillard says that people love theme parks because they make their theme-park suburbs seem more real. 

The acute aestheticization of contemporary life doesn’t necessarily imply reflexivity.

Is the anachronist Miniver Cheevy any more or less authentic than any of us?

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