sadness of america/bad postmodernism

[John Doe]

Hmmmm....y'know...I have wondered...what does
Baudrillard have to say about the post-moderinization
of say a poor , starving Ethiopean 12 year old? Does
that child's mindscape partake of the post-modernist
impingements on the psyche, just the way that an
adult, white French educated male's does? things that
make ya go hmmmmmmmmmm.....

--- Otto <ottosell at yahoo.de> wrote:

> Baudrillard and Trek-nology (Or Everything I Know I
> Learned From 
> Watching Star Trek and Reading Jean Baudrillard)
> 
> "It was my childhood in New York in the late 1960s.
> As a good Jew, I was 
> supposed to acquire a Jewish education. But instead
> I loved Star Trek. 
> Everything I know I learned from watching Star Trek.
> Among other things, 
> I learned to love science. This made me a good
> American. So I went to 
> the elite technology university. But I didn't like
> the complicity of 
> science with the Vietnam War that existed there. So
> I dropped out. I was 
> radicalized. I then went to the elite humanities
> university. But the 
> American radical thinkers were all Marxists. Then I
> read Jean 
> Baudrillard's book The Mirror of Production. I
> grasped that Marx was not 
> radical enough. Everything I know I learned from
> reading Baudrillard. 
> Later I tried to practice a compromise between
> technology and the 
> humanities known as sociology. Then I read
> Baudrillard's book In the 
> Shadow of the Silent Majorities. There he says that
> sociologists, just 
> like marketing executives and politicians, want to
> socialize the masses. 
> But the masses resist by going silent and "playing
> dead." They disappear 
> into over-consumption and fandom.
>             The disappearing act of today is
> techno-culture, or more 
> precisely, Star Trek. Star Trek is the most
> prevalent "icon" of 
> techno-culture. Physicists, engineers, computer
> programmers, graphic 
> artists, and media practitioners are its adamant
> fans."
> 
> Alan N. Shapiro
> (Frankfurt, Germany)
>
http://www.ubishops.ca/baudrillardstudies/vol2_2/shapiro.htm
> 
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