There is a general problem of critical mass of the means which puts an end to ends. What happens when everything has been realized in modernity, when everything is virtually given?
The question is crucial: where does one go from there? That is the problem: from the moment the subject is perfectly realized, it automatically becomes the object, and there is panic. I am not sure that with the virtual world we are moving closer still to happiness, because virtuality only gives possibilities virtually, while taking back the reference and the density of things, their meaning. It gives you everything, and subtly, surreptitiously it takes everything away at the same time. It is a game of which one does not know the rules. One loses what one wins and vice versa. All one can do is refuse to play, but it's not easy in our times.
-Jean Baudrillard
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