SHINTO

Eight million Shinto deities
travel secretly throughout the earth.
Those modest gods touch us,
touch us and move on.
Jorge Luis Borges
"The Simulacra of Global Conflict", International Journal of Baudrillard Studies
It is not only those in the West who appropriate the power of the mass media, as is sometimes claimed. This view creates a false division, and conceals the fact that terrorist and governmental powers alike avail of the exposure offered to them by the global media of internet and satellite television. Ultimately, Baudrillard suggests that power itself becomes a simulacrum. The consequence of power being relayed through the media, as it has been in the war in Iraq, and the terrorist bombings of the last few years, is that there is a danger of power itself being shaped by its medium, so that it no longer matters who has power in reality, only who is seen to have power, so that the war “turns itself into a grotesque infantile reality show, in a desperate simulacrum of power.”
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