"the media age, the age of simulation.... The age of no ideology, only hyperreality.... The streets are filled with gangs and terrorists, the women rage with anger, everyone lives for themselves.... down in the street people kill for drugs and kicks. Too little reality, also too much. Every- where, wild fantasies, everyone wants a violent illusion. Life is a movie, death a plot ending, no stories are real. And even the philosophers think in unrealities, [as] they describe a world of no ethics, no humanism, no self."
