A work so well done, with so much information and solid research, examples commented with clarity, that left this tavern philosopher clearly confused, having an idea of the difficulty in defining simulation, but having a reasonable understanding of what it is.
I watched his videos “Modernity and Postmodernity” (this one I have shared with many who I think need to understand), “Jordan Peterson’s Shadow” and “How Bertrand Russell Saved Ludwig Wittgenstein’s Life”. I had already read “What is Semiotics?”, and saved it to reread before I could comment.
I saved several snippets.
In this one, “There is no way out of the simulation. It is a straitjacket; it's a prison that we are locked into. And that’s why it’s so terrifying”, asking you and Ben Cain for forgiveness in advance, if I didn’t understand you correctly: yes, this is a world of horror!
Perhaps I should follow Wittgenstein's advice: "What cannot speak of, we must pass over in silence."
This one:
"There's something wholesome about the market that is completely missing in the hypermarket. It has lost its soul in its attempt to perfect the idea of the market".
"The market becomes something hyperreal in this approach to perfection and somewhere along the lines it loses its soul", is sensational!
And these others:
“In order for ethnology to live, its object must die” (ibid.). In the process of studying the tribes the ethnologists were causing them to decay".
"When you hear people arguing about what our ancestors ate, how our ancestors lived and why you should live that way now, it's not getting back to the way our Paleolithic ancestors lived; it's another simulation just like the Tasaday".
"It's this simulation of wilderness that in its attempt to perfect the idea of wilderness has lost all touch with it".
I saved it to send to anyone who can understand what our ethnologists, ethnological institutions and governments do wrong, and for many to understand what is behind so many NGOs in Brazil funded by governments and international institutions.
Once again congratulations and applause for the text and for getting published.