Baudrillard

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i have one line related to this committed to memory:

>it is always the same; once you are liberated, you are forced to ask yourself who you are.

never went out of my head. not sure if that's the one but that is a verbatim line from one of his books. which one i can't quite remember atm.

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>>9819193
Are you talking about this "After the Orgy" bit? I've posted it pretty often. It's from The Transparency of Evil.

>>9819252
Yes, that's it. Thank you, anon.

>>9819253
It's a pretty interesting passage, I think it characterizes the modern moment extremely well, even 20 years later.

>"Now that everything has been liberated, the chips are down, and we find ourselves faced collectively with the big question: WHAT DO WE NOW THAT THE ORGY IS OVER?"

>"Now all we can do is simulate the orgy, simulate liberation. We may pretend to carry on in the same direction, accelerating, but in reality we are accelerating in a void, because all the goals of liberation are already behind us, and because what haunts and obsesses us is being thus ahead of all results - the very availability of all the signs, all the forms, all the desires that we had be pursuing"

I think the only passage that has the same strength of describing the contemporary moment is Debord:

>"The spectacle is not a collection of images,rather, it is a social relationship between people that is mediated by images."

Between these two ideas, I think almost every important contemporary philosophical question is posed.

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Also, here is another one of my favorites from the Transparency of Evil.>>9819253