Jean Baudrillard
Baudrillard says that our society has replaced all meaning and reality with signs and symbols. Places and things like Vegas are reality for people now. Reality TV isn't just TV for some people. It is life. This makes me think of when I went to Disney World and they had a rollercoaster simulater there. You put into a computer what kind of turns and flips you would do, then you would get into this circle machine that looked like a rollercoaster on the inside. There would be a huge screen in front of you showing you the track you made. The machine you were in would actually do every flip and turn you typed in. But it didn't actually roll anywhere. It felt just like a real rollercoaster.
Below is a video comparing Baudrillard's theory to the Matrix.
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