Thoughts on Strangerhood: with help from Bruce, Bacon and Baudrillard

2016-04-07T01:32:25-07:00By |Categories: Action Hero, CounterPULSE|Tags: , , , , , , , , |

Reading Gemma's post about a European's impression of the US, I immediately thought of Jean Baudrillard’s book “America." Here are some gems from my well-underlined, college copy: “This (The United States) is the only country which gives you the opportunity to be so brutally naïve: things, faces, skies, and deserts are expected to be simply what they are. This is the land of the ‘just as it is’.” “America is neither dream nor reality. It is a hyperreality. It is