"Take your desires for reality!" can be understood as the ultimate slogan of power.

To dissimulate is to pretend not to have what one has. To simulate is to feign to have what one doesn't have.
~ Jean Baudrillard ~












To dissimulate is to pretend not to have what one has. To simulate is to feign to have what one does...
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