This piece by Jean Baudrillard is brutally hard to read and shift through, and in my opinion one of the most poor attempts at getting a certain point across, I have ever come across. Between the over analyzed examples I found what I felt was the basis of the work, what was simulated, and dishonest, or real, and truthful? I understand this is a topic that one cant ague very well, obviously we are not 100% sure that what around us is real and not simulated, but calling Disney Land a concentration camp may be taking things a little bit far. Yes, people enjoy "fantasy lands" and fictional characters, but people are smart, they know those things are fake, or atleast little children will soon realize they are fake. Also, you have to be a little bit crazy to look at it as if all the simulated, fake characters at disney land are real, and we are the simulated people. If she was going to bring up an arguement to try to help her case, that was a terrible choice. "Real is no longer the real", I honestly tryed to make sense of this in any way I could, and I failed. When bringing up a confusing point, and backing it with confusing topics, is what you are accomplishing, why not throw in an incredably unbelievable statement like that, because you got nothing to lose. Yes, Watergate was a scandal, because it was unexpected and against the law. Again, yes, it was also a scandal because they lied to try to cover themselves because they didnt want to get in trouble. All of this is true, but it in no way relates to the point. Most people believe Watergate happened, because it DID, I would actually consider is a FACT. Once again, a very poor example to prove your case. However, do I agree with this topic? Yes, I opened my mind enough to slightly consider the possibility that what we have around us in this world is all simulated. Therefore, I also would like to say how unrealistic this topic is and in fact I would consider it a topic that makes a persons head hurt when they think about it, similiar to question like, Why are we here? Why is earth, earth? What else is out there? I would consider "Is the real no longer real?" to fit in very well with those questions. Attemping to push this topic as a real possiblity could be done, but it was not done well in this writing. A person must understand what the purpose of a piece of writing is for it to be useful, and for them to take it into consideration. That being said, I could be completely wrong, maybe I misinterprted what she was trying to say, maybe I wrote on the entirely wrong thing. That should be a huge hint that what you wrote was poorly done, that when a person reads over it time and again they still dont understand what is being said. I look forward to discussing this in class because obviously I am a little confused.