Anoushka Ray

As children, few of us are taught to understand and prioritize our feelings. For the most part, the educational system doesn’t ask us to access our sensitivity, but to be obedient. To do what is expected. Our natural independent spirit is tamed. Free thought is constrained. There is a set of rules and expectations put upon us that is not about

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Fear of war, fear of invasion, fear of plague, fears that make it simply not worthwhile constructing things, or planting trees or even planning next year's crops. And fear of the supernatural, which means that you daren't question anything or change anything. The late antique world was full of meaningless rituals, mystery religions, that destroyed... See more

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French social theorist Jean Baudrillard has this concept called the hyperreality . It’s rooted in simulacrum (Latin for “copying shit”) and follows this rule: the “faker” something seems, the more “real” everything else around it seems to be in comparison, even if this perception is a false one.