Real Reality Is Reality

Life is hard but we’ve got to be living. To escape from the harsh reality we are living, we search for our happiness, or for what makes us happy even if it was fake, because we don’t care if what we are living or doing is real, or original all we care about is that it achieves our claim, and the problem is that we believe that it is real not fake at all, because that is what we see or what we want to see.
Originality is not important anymore especially these days, since the machine has the ability to duplicate anything and remove its originality and since it is giving us all our needs, who cares if it’s originality, and since it is giving us all our needs, who cares if it’s original or not, we don’t even think about it all we think about is

Here, signs and images do not faithfully reveal reality to us, but can hint at the existence of an obscure reality which the sign itself is incapable of encapsulating, the third step is 75% simulation and 25% real and here is when you start to see the thing more clearly, this stage masks the absence of a profound reality, where the sign pretends to be a faithful copy, but it is a copy with no original. Signs and images claim to represent something real, but no representation is taking place and arbitrary images are merely suggested as things which they have no relationship to, the last step is 100% simulation where reality disappeared and you start to see a copy of it but actually in the first step it was a simple real thing than it turned to a duplication of something that is real but is no longer real anymore, stage is pure simulation, here, signs merely reflect other signs and any claim to reality on the part of images or signs is only of the order of other such claims. For example, a clay, it is a real

He explains how the relation between simulation and reality has been changed, and claims that simulacram have exicsted through history, yet the meaning and the characteristics of each simulacra from different historic periods contains distinctive value. In the premodern period, covering the renaissance to the industrial revolution, the artificially created image is simply the replacement of the original item, or an ideal image of nature. In this period, art camouflaged and manipulated nature, it is a reflection of a basic reality. In the second order of simulacra, which starts from the industrial revolution of the nineteenth century, the distinction between reality and its representation became to blur due to the mass production and proliferation of copies that look identical to the prototypes. In this phase, the image masks and perverts a basic reality. For instance, the advent of cameras led to the creation of photographs, while the advancement of mechanical engineering made the mechanical reproduction of paintings possible. In the third order of simulacra, the present age, or the information age, we are dealing with a precession of simulacra. Baudrillard defines this phase as, the simulacram is an image without resemblance, whereas representation tries to absorb simulation by interpreting it as false representation, simulation envelops the whole edifice of representation as itself a simulacram.