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Originally Posted by Baraka_Guru
Are you declaring a foregone conclusion? I haven't exactly had the opportunity to disagree with you on anything. You asked a series of questions and I offered some clarifications. Did you instead mean to say you disagree with all of it?
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Perhaps I made a poor assumption, I thought you agreed with Baudrillard. If you don't I apologize. I was not able to find any general concept in his writing that I found agreeable. Even when he writes terrorism is immoral, he quickly looses any basis for agreement with my views, here is the quote:
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Terrorism is immoral. The occurrence at the World Trade Center, this symbolic act of defiance, is immoral, but it was in response to globalization, which is itself immoral. We are therefore immoral ourselves, so if we hope to understand anything we will need to get beyond Good and Evil. The crucial point lies in precisely the opposite direction from the Enlightenment philosophy of Good and Evil.
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Even with the "Terrorism is immoral" sentence, my gut is telling me that he is trying to sugar coat the indiscriminate murder of innocent people. Within the concept of terrorism, I think you can look at various tactics, the worst being the indiscriminate murder of innocent people, for him to then compare "globalization" i.e. national governments working under a common set of rules and regulations to enhance trade and communication, leaves me at a loss for words.
I know Baudrillard is not making this point in his piece but there are some people who think that our military engages in act of indiscriminate murder of innocent people and are no different than "terrorists", I don't agree and really don't know how to engage those who believe that, just like I have difficulty with Baudrillard.