Simulation is the situation created by any system of signs when it becomes sophisticated enough, autonomous enough, to abolish its own referent and to replace it with itself. Jean Baudrillard More Quotes by Jean Baudrillard More Quotes From Jean Baudrillard The local is a shabby thing. There's nothing worse than bringing us back down to our own little corner, our own territory, the radiant promiscuity of the face to face. A culture which has taken the risk of the universal, must perish by the universal. Jean Baudrillard Perhaps the world's second worst crime is boredom. The first is being a bore. Jean Baudrillard boredom crime worst world