--- title: "1 Arresting Quotes By Jean Baudrillard" description: "1 Arresting quotes by Jean Baudrillard. Plus more from Jean Baudrillard and more Arresting sayings from other authors." image: "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/2c4/jean-baudrillard-1500_absence_the-us-cultivates-no-origin-or-mythical_2353111.jpg" --- > [The US ... cultivates no origin or mythical authenticity; it has no past and no founding truth ... it lives in a perpetual present. in the US everything human is artificial. The country is without hope. What is arresting here…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jean-baudrillard/the-us-cultivates-no-origin-or-mythical-authenticity-it-has-no-past/) [Jean Baudrillard](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jean-baudrillard/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/2c4/jean-baudrillard-1500_absence_the-us-cultivates-no-origin-or-mythical_2353111.jpg) ## Other authors on Arresting ## More by Jean Baudrillard > [“The whole gestural system of work was also obscene, in sharp contrast to the miniaturized and abstract gestural system of control to which it…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jean-baudrillard/the-whole-gestural-system-of-work-was-also-obscene-in-sharp-contrast/) [Jean Baudrillard](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jean-baudrillard/) > [“We will live in this world, which for us has all the disquieting strangeness of the desert and of the simulacrum, with all the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jean-baudrillard/we-will-live-in-this-world-which-for-us-has-all-the-disquieting/) [Jean Baudrillard](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jean-baudrillard/) > [Holidays are in no sense an alternative to the congestion and bustle of the cities and work. Quite the contrary. People look to escape…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jean-baudrillard/holidays-are-in-no-sense-an-alternative-to-the-congestion-and-bustle/) [Jean Baudrillard](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jean-baudrillard/) > [There is nothing funny about Halloween. This sarcastic festival reflects, rather, an infernal demand for revenge by children on the adult world.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jean-baudrillard/there-is-nothing-funny-about-halloween-this-sarcastic-festival/) [Jean Baudrillard](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jean-baudrillard/) > [The sickly cultural pathos which the whole of France indulges in, that fetishism of the cultural heritage.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jean-baudrillard/the-sickly-cultural-pathos-which-the-whole-of-france-indulges-in-that/) [Jean Baudrillard](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jean-baudrillard/) > [“We need a visible past, a visible continuum, a visible myth of origin to reassure us as to our ends, since ultimately we have…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jean-baudrillard/we-need-a-visible-past-a-visible-continuum-a-visible-myth-of-origin/) [Jean Baudrillard](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jean-baudrillard/) > [History that repeats itself turns to farce. Farce that repeats itself turns to history.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jean-baudrillard/history-that-repeats-itself-turns-to-farce-farce-that-repeats-itself/) [Jean Baudrillard](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jean-baudrillard/) > [Perhaps our eyes are merely a blank film which is taken from us after our deaths to be developed elsewhere and screened as our…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jean-baudrillard/perhaps-our-eyes-are-merely-a-blank-film-which-is-taken-from-us-after/) [Jean Baudrillard](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jean-baudrillard/) > [If everything is perfect, language is useless. This is true for animals. If animals don't speak, it's because everything's perfect for them. If one…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jean-baudrillard/if-everything-is-perfect-language-is-useless-this-is-true-for-animals/) [Jean Baudrillard](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jean-baudrillard/) > [There exists, between people in love, a kind of capital held by each. This is not just a stock of affects or pleasure, but…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jean-baudrillard/there-exists-between-people-in-love-a-kind-of-capital-held-by-each/) [Jean Baudrillard](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jean-baudrillard/) > [When the real is no longer what it used to be, nostalgia assumes its full meaning.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jean-baudrillard/when-the-real-is-no-longer-what-it-used-to-be-nostalgia-assumes-its/) [Jean Baudrillard](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jean-baudrillard/) > [With the truth, you need to get rid of it as soon as possible and pass it on to someone else. As with illness,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jean-baudrillard/with-the-truth-you-need-to-get-rid-of-it-as-soon-as-possible-and-pass/) [Jean Baudrillard](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jean-baudrillard/) > [You have to know how to disappear.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jean-baudrillard/you-have-to-know-how-to-disappear/) [Jean Baudrillard](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jean-baudrillard/) > [Large department stores, with their luxuriant abundance of canned goods, foods, and clothing, are like the primary landscape and the geometrical locus of affluence.…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jean-baudrillard/large-department-stores-with-their-luxuriant-abundance-of-canned/) [Jean Baudrillard](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jean-baudrillard/) > [The sad thing about artificial intelligence is that it lacks artifice and therefore intelligence.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jean-baudrillard/the-sad-thing-about-artificial-intelligence-is-that-it-lacks-artifice/) [Jean Baudrillard](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jean-baudrillard/) ```json { "@context": "https://schema.org", "@graph": [ { "@type": "ItemList", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/arresting/jean-baudrillard/#itemlist", "name": "1 Arresting Quotes By Jean Baudrillard", "numberOfItems": 1, "itemListElement": [ { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 1, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "The US ... cultivates no origin or mythical authenticity; it has no past and no founding truth ... it lives in a perpetual present. in the US everything human is artificial. 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