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Baudrillard Theory: The Deterrence Machine

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Jean Baudrillard was a philosopher, sociologist, cultural critic, and theorist of postmodernity, who challenged all existing theories of contemporary society with humor and precision. Simulacra and simulation is a philosophical treatise by Jean Baudrillard seeking to examine the relationships among reality, symbols, and society. The importance in baudrillard theory, which I was excited to write about, is that all what he stated in simulation, occupies a big space in our daily life. And after publishing his books, people started to realize that his beliefs and writing was the “deterrence machine”. He wants us to know that the real is no longer real, and illusion no longer impossible, and to think two times after we receive any image, because …show more content…

It gives me a scared feeling towards their behaviors, school achievements and toward their way in rising up. The problem is that they are mediated by a sophisticated machine as Computers, PlayStations…This machine with inserted software and applications are the road and the base of relationship between media and reality, which give birth to a new reality, which make my son, acts the same as in the game, because he like the virtual game than the real life. Parents bought video games for their kids to have fun, but actually these video games should be nightmares for them. I can understand what Jean baudrilard was scared from. All my scares and alertness that I faced reflects what Jean Baudrillard stated in his theories. These are the aspect of simulation by video games. And it’s true of what baudrillard believed, that they make the game as real life, and let the child feel in reality and enjoy every detail in it, to be at the end addicted, and to be costumed to these violent activities. Thus child will be a captive to every released game at the beginning, and he will be one of their followers at the end. I mean that they prepare him from the earlier age, by such a game with its methodology, which embedded in him easily, to have the new generation controlled in the future. And don’t be over taken that our new generation neglect reading a book, while they spend a lot of time on electronics games. This is one of the strategies that used by western, to let us be stunning by the negative sight of technology, and they will take the mission of how to control the whole world. But if we search further, we can see that we are living in a mediated world every day, it’s not limited by video games, at the end the game we can repeat it, but some event happened in life can’t be

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