We're Headed for Cultural Nihilism [All That's Left Is Doubt]

Published: September 9, 2007, 5:52 am

Everything has become spectacle, reality is spectacle and the spectacle is reality There is thus no longer anything external to the spectacle, no uncontaminated standpoint outside the spectacle from which we could call it into questionWhat if "the revolution has well and truly happened," as Baudrillard holds, "but not in the way that we expected "Everywhere what has been liberated has been liberated so that it can enter into a state of pure circulation, so that it can go into orbit"? Baudrillard characterizes the present state of affairs as "after the orgy" We live "after the Orgy"- for Baudrillard this means that the revolution is over, that "all the goals of liberation are already behind us""Just in the past few months," Bruse Bartlett said, "I think a light has gone off for people who've spent time up close to Bush: that this instinct he's always talking about is this sort of weird, Messianic idea of what he thinks God has told him to do." Bartlett, a 53-year-old columnist and

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