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i hate it and i hate the fact i was born. but you cant kill your parents before they give birth to you.
baudrillard in the agony of power is getting at something that only he seems to understand. him and some sci fi writers. but noone has yet been able to make it totally explicit.
if you look at what life does - it dies, it produces more of itself and that dies. but all its doing is dying.
look at chinese slave labourers, they can work for pennies and kill themselves slowly or they can just kill themselves. but as this process continues, the human slaves are being placed by machines.
this process is happening to animals - they are going extinct, as this happens, our technological processes coterminously develop techniques that can clone/reproduce these animals.
we back up their genome, bio data etc. so what we end up with is a world wherein animals go extinct, but we are also able to reproduce them totally with technology. but as this happens, the purpose of reproducing the animals at all is totally lost. why bother to make them, to make environments for them to reproduce and die in? its a waste of time.
the hippie scum that want to preserve them are deranged sickos, the meat eaters are just happy cannibal killers. the animals are just dying. theres no joy in any of this.
so the same process that is happening to the animals and the chinese slaves is happening to HUMANITY AS A WHOLE.
this is why baudrillard said "in the end, humanity will have been nothing but an infantile illness of an integral technological reality that is not even aware it exists".
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