That being said (XV), the real has always exercised its dominance over the imaginative. The discourse of rationality has always sought to enslave the freedom of the imaginative - the causality of Jung's interpretation of dreams did absolutely nothing to liberate humanity. All it did was to tie the noose around the one essential power of our misbegotten race: To construct images that were nothing more than the act of thinking them.
The two main properties of humanity are thus always at odds with each other; we wish to be meaningless yet cannot live without meaning. Both Baudrillard and Orwell were right - simply deceiving ourselves is not enough, we have to be aware that we are deceiving ourselves, yet still proceeding. We construct a world of beasts, forget our part, and then we tell each other that we must be beasts to survive.
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