The new shopping malls make possible the synthesis of all consumer activities, not least of which are shopping, flirting with objects, idle wandering, and all the permutations of these. 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