The Book Club's video: Jean Baudrillard - Simulacra and Simulation

this book is really good but also kinda bad but overall i enjoyed it. It's one of those books that you gotta read a couple of times over to really get, i had to read some of the sentences a couple of times over in order to understand them but overall I think it was a good book and I liked it, even though I think I disagree with the overall message, but I also think that that was the point of the book in that Baudrillard talks about how even nihilism is impossible in todays day and age if you know what i mean. But overall I'd say, that this book was good at describing a certain mood that you get sometimes when you are not in the best of moods, and this kind of annoys me sometimes when I wake up but sometimes I feel ok... the question is like, do you think that abstraction was the prerequisite to all experience, is abstraction like a Landian templex that was never not experienced as a kind of Sensation of the Fall of Man, in that, the very structure of time is curved, we always feel like we are falling faster than ever before, and we, as single units of experience, in some bizarre Poly-Solipsistic other-distribution to vulgar space-time, create the ... I don't know really. Is the movement away from the *profound reality* first represented, then distorted, then its absence hidden, then finally rendered pure simulacra, is that not a kind of divine circle where the origin is forgotten... Necessarily forgotten, like the unconcealing which conceals, .. bruh My mum and sis are watching MASH on this new TV my mum bought. After this video is published I'm going to start walking again south, hopefully sneak into Italy and see if I can get all the way to the Pyramids. It's kind of a big deal but I'm unsure if I'm just acting out some pathological glitch or immaturity in my character for not just staying in the UK, and getting a job as a lawyer or something. Baudrillard isn't helping. My feeling about doing the walking is pretty good though -- it's the only time I really feel alive, really feel like I'm in it, things feel simple. Ok so, thanks for all of you buying merch. The post is fucked atm as I'm sure you're aware so the hoodies haven't been delivered to my middle man (Alex) yet, but when we get them they'll be sent stat. Feel heavy knowing I have to walk now. These are my final moments of childhood, at 26. I'm going to try and stop getting money from my mum as well, so I'll probably have to get a job wherever I end up, which means I won't really have time for videos. But who cares. This thing was fading out as is, but we'll see. Maybe in Cairo, something will make sense... Cairo... Hmmmm. https://discord.gg/wQfeCfQkGM I'll leave a dumbass server open bc I know some of you like to insult each other. Ok. gg bro gg