Title: garden variety platitude
Product review: Looking for an interesting critique of America? Look elsewhere. Baudrillard is your garden variety old European who likes to spill ink. The following citation from the author's "the Spirit of Terrorism" illustrates his 'thinking':"That we have dreamed of this event [i.e. the September 11 terrorist attacks], that everybody without exception has dreamt of it, because everybody must dream of the destruction of any power hegemonic to that degree, - this is unacceptable for Western moral conscience, but it is still a fact ... It is almost they who did it, but we who wanted it"Such intellectual atrocities are not uncommon in old Europe. But they are uninteresting. So if you're interested in critical intellecutal discourse about America, you're better off reading the 'Economist'.
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