Do I do as false prophets do and puff air into simulacra? Am I a Sorcerer--like Macbeth's witches--mixing truth and lies in incandescent shapes? Or am I a kind of very minor scribe of a prophetic Book--telling such truth as in me lies, with aid of such fiction as I acknowledge mine, as Prospero acknowledged Caliban.
Quotes about simulacra (4 Quotes)
The only freedom supposed to be left to the masses is that of grazing on the ration of simulacra the system distributes to each individual.
The real community of man, in the midst of all the self-contradictory simulacra of community, is the community of those who seek the truth
What we want is not freedom but its appearances. It is for these simulacra that man has always striven. And since freedom, as has been said, is no more than a sensation, what difference is there between being free and believing ourselves free