Precession of simulacrae

The age of simulation thus begins with a liquidation of all referential —worse: by their artificial resurrection in systems of signs, amore ductile material than meaning. The reading used Disneyland as a perfect model of all the entailed orders of simulation. It explains how Disneyland is presented to make us think although it is more imaginary than not the rest of the world is real, however the truth is everything is a part of the hyperreal simulation. Therefore if nothing is real it is not possible to make up the false, and or illusions.

Outside Example: My Outside example is the media. I think the media can sometimes be used as an escape. whether it be photos, facebook, instagram, twitter, tik tok, or other trendy platforms they act as imaginary places that create a hyperreal setting of which you occasionally dream as false or fake.

Connected: I connected this to the reading because the reading discusses how Disneyland is a place where people leave their lives at the door and enter a different one. In a similar way, people can leave their daily personalities or even their identities and take on new ones on the web through numerous platforms. For example sometimes people make food accounts or humor accounts to escape their everyday lives or even enhance them. However, the idea that media is misleading or false and everything else is real is as well, just a hyperreal order of simulation. Nothing is real, some things are just higher up in the order