DYING A LITTLE MORE DYING A LITTLE MORE DYING A LITTLE MORE DYING A LITTLE MORE

The first stage is a faithful image/copy, where people believe, and may even be correct to believe, that a sign is a "reflection of a profound reality" (pg 6), this is a good appearance, in what Baudrillard called "the sacramental order". The second stage is perversion of reality, where people come to believe that the sign is an unfaithful copy, which "masks and denatures" reality as an "evil appearance—it is of the order of maleficence". Here, signs and images do not faithfully reveal reality to us, but can hint at the existence of an obscure reality which the sign itself is incapable of encapsulating. The third stage masks the absence of a profound reality, where the sign pretends to be a faithful copy, but it is a copy with no original. Signs and images claim to represent something real, but no representation is taking place and arbitrary images are merely suggested as things which they have no relationship to. Baudrillard calls this the "order of sorcery", a regime of semantic algebra where all human meaning is conjured artificially to appear as a reference to the (increasingly) hermetic truth. The fourth stage is pure simulacrum, in which the simulacrum has no relationship to any reality whatsoever. Here, signs merely reflect other signs and any claim to reality on the part of images or signs is only of the order of other such claims. This is a regime of total equivalency, where cultural products need no longer even pretend to be real in a naïve sense, because the experiences of consumers' lives are so predominantly artificial that even claims to reality are expected to be phrased in artificial, "hyperreal" terms. Any naïve pretension to reality as such is perceived as bereft of critical self-awareness, and thus as oversentimental.

WHAT ARE YOU MADE OF? WHAT ARE YOU MADE OF? WHAT ARE YOU MADE OF?

男子离奇死亡，竟是被妻子投了重水导致渴死。

THRASH METAL 生于西海岸则为敲击，生于东海岸则为鞭挞，倘若是生于南部农村，那就是激流！

我们是来自山东滨州的一支重型乐队..是由迷笛屌丝学生和高中屌丝学生组成的一支特屌丝的乐队

在一个黄金时间 巨大而且精密的机器 喷射出他的信念 他的碎片

Hold your head up high-for there is no greater love, Think of the faces of the people you defend.

′★.．/丄偙 請 吥 喓 奪赱___莪恴 緈鍢 恏嗎?_▂_▂_▂。 °

受力分析，变速圆周运动，粒子加速器和三角函数。

老张开车去东北 🎵， drifting further everyday 🎵 🎵

We cut the trees to build bird houses.

We build the cities and the cities destroy us.