a shared stupidity
The revolution of ‘lived experience’is without doubt the worst, the revolution which has swept away the secrecy with which everyone surrounded their own life and has transformed that life into a huge ‘reality show’.
what has been liberated by all the revolutions of desire, expression, fantasy and analysis is not the dramaturgy of the unconscious nor the theatre of cruelty, but the theatre of banality.
it is not the taboo on the drives at has been removed, but that on triviality, naivety, idiosyncrasy and idiosyncretism.
what has been liberated is not each person’s singularity, but their specific stupidity - that is to say, the stupidity they share with everyone else.
jean baudrillard
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July 16th, 2008 at 6:32 pm
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July 16th, 2008 at 8:18 pm
Well said. I love the title and the irony beacuse while these reality shows may be depicted as innovative modern forms of entertainment, truth is they are nothing more than new age manifestation of human zoos……..a share stupidity indeed