InterestedParticipant
08-17-2009, 12:20 PM
Predictive programming = "precession of Simulacra," as described by philosopher Jean Baudrillard. (see this thread (http://www.ronpaulforums.com/showthread.php?t=205177))
Predictive programming seeds the thoughts in minds that would never think of such futures. As HG Wells said 'in the shape of things to come'. they overlay their template in people's minds through media....
first with fiction,
then education,
finally political policies.
It is important to note that when Baudrillard refers to the "precession of simulacra" in Simulacra and Simulations. Specifically, he is referring to the way simulacra have come to precede the real, rather than to any succession of historical phases of the image. Referring to "On Exactitude in Science", a fable written by Borges, he argued that just as for contemporary society the simulated copy had superseded the original object, so, too, the map had come to precede the geographic territory (c.f. Map–territory relation), e.g. the first Gulf War ...the image of war preceded real war.
Henceforth, it is the map that precedes the territory - precession of simulacra - it is the map that engenders the territory and if we were to revive the fable today, it would be the territory whose shreds are slowly rotting across the map.
Predictive programming seeds the thoughts in minds that would never think of such futures. As HG Wells said 'in the shape of things to come'. they overlay their template in people's minds through media....
first with fiction,
then education,
finally political policies.
It is important to note that when Baudrillard refers to the "precession of simulacra" in Simulacra and Simulations. Specifically, he is referring to the way simulacra have come to precede the real, rather than to any succession of historical phases of the image. Referring to "On Exactitude in Science", a fable written by Borges, he argued that just as for contemporary society the simulated copy had superseded the original object, so, too, the map had come to precede the geographic territory (c.f. Map–territory relation), e.g. the first Gulf War ...the image of war preceded real war.
Henceforth, it is the map that precedes the territory - precession of simulacra - it is the map that engenders the territory and if we were to revive the fable today, it would be the territory whose shreds are slowly rotting across the map.