Why Are People Disappearing Research Paper

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Is there an art of disappearing? Jean Baudrillard suggested in his last book Why Hasn't Everything Already Disappeared? (Jean Baudrillard, Why Hasn't Everything Already Disappeared?, Seagull Books, 2009) which got published just before he passed away, that disappearing is not an accidental event, but a conscious withdraw from the world. But not only individual humans are disappearing, it is actually reality in itself, that is slowly disappearing. People foster a totalitarian attraction to unity, to lessen dualities, to abolish evil. Humans seem fascinated by the idea of a vanishing of reality or that of reality is becoming a symbolic dimension that has broken away from the real. According to him we are driven by an urge to dematerialize everything,

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