BAUDRILLARD, I CHOOSE YOU!
“The only objective illusion is a physical truth: no object in this universe co-exists in real time with other objects. There is no correspondence between the sexes, between the stars, nor this glass and the table onto which it sits. Because light travels in space, when we look at an object, we look at it with a certain delay. This is the intrinsic disorder of creation. The absence of things to themselves, the fact that they don’t take place while seeming to, the fact that everything withdraws behind its own appearance and can therefore never be identical to itself, all this is the material illusion of the world. Real time does not exist as one cannot be completely in the present moment, hence the reality of human beings is always virtual. On the other hand, if we say that in any given moment in time you are in a specific temporal place, you will never be in a moment in time which contains your entire experiences. And this remains at bottom the great enigma, which plunges us into terror, and from which we protect ourselves with the formal illusion of truth.”
