We are no longer in a state of growth; we are in a state of excess. We are living in a society of excrescence. The boil is growing out of control, recklessly at cross purposes with itself, its impacts multiplying as the causes disintegrate. Jean Baudrillard More Quotes by Jean Baudrillard More Quotes From Jean Baudrillard If everything on television is, without exception, part of a low-calorie (or even no-calorie) diet, then what good is it complaining about the adverts? By their worthlessness, they at least help to make the programmes around them seem of a higher level. Jean Baudrillard levelscomplainingtelevision The price we pay for the complexity of life is too high. When you think of all the effort you have to put in -telephonic, technological and relational -to alter even the slightest bit of behavior in this strange world we call social life, you are left pining for the straightforwardness of primitive peoples and their physical work. Jean Baudrillard simplicityeffortthinking The price we pay for the complexity of life is too high. Jean Baudrillard pininglife-ispay The desert is a natural extension of the inner silence of the body. If humanity's language, technology, and buildings are an extension of its constructive faculties, the desert alone is an extension of its capacity for absence, the ideal schema of humanity's disappearance. Jean Baudrillard technologysilencehumanity Art is no longer anything more than a kind of meta-language for banality. Jean Baudrillard languagekindart It is the corpse of the bourgeoisie that separates us. With us, it is that class that is the carrier of the chromosome of banality. Jean Baudrillard banalitybourgeoisieclass There are only a few images that are not forced to provide meaning, or have to go through the filter of a specific idea. Jean Baudrillard filtersideas There is nothing funny about Halloween. This sarcastic festival reflects, rather, an infernal demand for revenge by children on the adult world. Jean Baudrillard sarcasticrevengefunny What you have to do is enter the fiction of America, enter America as fiction. It is, indeed, on this fictive basis that it dominates the world. Jean Baudrillard societyamericafiction The repentant, run-to-seed ultra-Leftists who have converted to humanitarianism, artificial inseminators of the widow and the orphan, themselves orphans of reality and malades imaginaires of politics, premature ejaculators of posthistory and hyperchondriacs of the dead body of ideology and morality. Jean Baudrillard widowsrunningreality The confrontation between America and Europe reveals not so much a rapprochement as a distortion, an unbridgeable rift. There isn't just a gap between us, but a whole chasm of modernity. Jean Baudrillard rifteuropeamerica Protect everything, detect everything, contain everything - obsessional society. Save time. Save money. Save our souls - phobic society. Low tar. Low energy. Low calories. Low sex. Low speed - anorexic society. Jean Baudrillard energysoulsex Terror is as much a part of the concept of truth as runniness is of the concept of jam. We wouldn't like jam if it didn't, by its very nature, ooze. We wouldn't like truth if it wasn't sticky, if, from time to time, it didn't ooze blood. Jean Baudrillard truthtimeblood The skylines lit up at dead of night, the air-conditioning systems cooling empty hotels in the desert and artificial light in the middle of the day all have something both demented and admirable about them. The mindless luxury of a rich civilization, and yet of a civilization perhaps as scared to see the lights go out as was the hunter in his primitive night. Jean Baudrillard acceptancemathnight Americans may have no identity, but they do have wonderful teeth. Jean Baudrillard teethidentitymay In the same way that we need statesmen to spare us the abjection of exercising power, we need scholars to spare us the abjection of learning. Jean Baudrillard abjectionpowerexercise It is a world completely rotten with wealth, power, senility, indifference, puritanism and mental hygiene, poverty and waste, technological futility and aimless violence, and yet I cannot help but feel it has about it something of the dawning of the universe. Perhaps because the entire world continues to dream of New York, even as New York dominates and exploits it. Jean Baudrillard hygienenew-yorkdream Like dreams, statistics are a form of wish fulfillment. Jean Baudrillard wishdreammath You are born modern, you do not become so. Jean Baudrillard modernismmodernborn What is a society without a heroic dimension? Jean Baudrillard heroismdimensionshero
