Simulacra and Simulation are the topics discussed in Jean Baudrillards The Precession of Simulacra. The base of his theory is that humanity is in a constant battle with the relationship between symbols, simulations and reality.
“To simulate, Baudrillard says initially, is to pretend to have what one has not.”
Baudrillards notion is presented with extreme simulation with Borge’s story of the map, where that map simulated a monstrous kingdom in comparison to its true form. And when the Empire crumbled and lost all its land all they had left was the map, a false representation of what used to be. This theory is much more evident in present time; we are much more focused on labeling and symbols that we believe to have powers that can transform our lives, which is caused by our culture and cleverly branded reality created by the media. To “simulate” is to imitate or reproduce a want that is “real with symbols or “sings” that can fill that need. Human experiences our only simulations of what we believe to be true instead of living reality in its true form. For example, when a person goes to the cinema to watch a movie; for those two hours the person is in a fictional reality, a simulation of a world where anything is possible. Jumping into burning buildings, or traveling to a galaxy far, far away, or being that hot stud that always gets the gorgeous woman, or that woman that could seduce a man with a bat of an eye, these films are a type of illusion that represents an ideal reality, which fades away the second the person walks out of the theatre.
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