Baudrillard: America is a concept.
Q: Are you saying that America represents the ideal of democracy?
B: No, the simulation of power. … All our values are simulated. What is freedom? We have a choice between buying one car or buying another car? It’s a simulation of freedom.
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Excerpt from an interview with Jean Baudrillard (French philosopher 1929-2007), New York Times Magazine, November 2005.