It is the excess of reality that makes us stop believing in it.
The saturation of the world, the technological saturation of life, the excess of possibilities, of actualization of needs and desires. How are we to believe in reality once its production has become automatic?
The real is suffocated by is own accumulation. There is no way now for the dream to be an expression of a desire since its virtual accomplishment is already present.
Deprivation of dreams, deprivation of desire. And we know what mental disorder sleep deprivation induces.
— Jean Baudrillard, The intelligence of evil or the lucidity pact. trans. Chris Turner (New York: Berg, 2007), 19 – 20.
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