What better way to kickstart this week than with a caricature of Jean Baudrillard spliced onto Tinkerbell’s body from a recent commission?

"Jean Baudrillard" by Steven Poole, www.theguardian.com. - … March 7, 2007.

Simulacra and Simulations . The simulacrum is never that which conceals the truth--it is the truth which conceals that there is none. Click here to view Jean in all his transvestite glory. When it comes to real life, however, it’s a different story, and we tend to see everyday life and the world around us as natural.
Jean Baudrillard. Like Innocence Aphrodisiac.

What Baudrillard is saying here is that Disneyland appears like a fantasy world in that, while we may enjoy visiting it (who doesn’t love shaking hands with Goofy? 34 Jean Baudrillard Quotes - Inspirational Quotes at BrainyQuote. Paradise is just paradise.

Perhaps the world's second worst crime is boredom. Jean Baudrillard. Mark Poster (Stanford; Stanford University Press, 1988), pp.166-184.. Jean Baudrillard. World Boredom Crime Worst.

According to Baudrillard, all of America is Disneyland.
Mournful, monotonous, and superficial though it may be, it is paradise. Disneyland doesn’t let you be a … Reality is not distorted in some Marxian fashion (see The German Ideology), it is the cultural code that pre-establishes life in America which is manifested in Disneyland. Here’s a snippet from his Simulacra and Simulation (come on people, even The Matrix directors co-opted it) to explain Jean’s link to Disneyland: from Jean Baudrillard, Selected Writings, ed.

The first is being a bore. There is no other." ), we know it’s not a reflection of reality. There is no aphrodisiac like innocence. "Santa Barbara is a paradise; Disneyland is a paradise; the U.S. is a paradise. 50 Copy quote Disneyland is presented as imaginary in order to make us believe that the rest is real.