Hyper-reality

[Diane]

Nice little article from our local neighbourhood free newspaper, about the artificial made realer than the real, "hyperreality." I now have a new word, "replascape." I believe an old word that was once used to sum all this up was "decadence."

http://www.vancourier.com/issues05/032105/opinion/032105op2.html

On the Canadian side of the border we constantly compare ourselves and of course consider ourselves more sane than this.
Diane

[bernard]

Diane,

Hyper reality, fake things and ultra high superficially are the common standards of your noisy neighbour. The decadence is certainly a weak word in a country governed by an illusion called $. Every day 1,000,000,000,000 of virtual $ are played on green tables of stock exchanges, all around the world without any winner in an announced economic disaster and ecological downfall.

Some illusory benefits are made upon emergent countries and increased poverty in a world merchandising market where consumers are ever manipulated by some mad wizards.