Noun
The word is derived from simulacrum
of Simulacrum
Source: Webster's dictionaryWhat we want is not freedom but its appearances. It is for these simulacra that man has always striven. And since freedom, as has been said, is no more than a sensation, what difference is there between being free and believing ourselves free? Emil Cioran
The only freedom supposed to be left to the masses is that of grazing on the ration of simulacra the system distributes to each individual. Michel De Certeau
It is trifling to believe in what you do or in what others do. You should avoid simulacra and even "realities"; you should take up a position external to everything and everyone, drive off or grind down your appetites, live, according to a Hindu adage, with as few desires as a "solitary elephant. Emil Cioran
In The Matrix, a copy of Jean Baudrillard 's Simulacra and Simulation is visible on-screen as the book used to conceal disks, and Morpheus quotes its phrase "desert of the real". citation The book was required reading for the actors prior to filming. Source: Internet
Baudrillard wrote in "Precession of the Simulacra": ::The simulacrum is never that which conceals the truth—it is the truth which conceals that there is none. Source: Internet
If no one ever imagined, we’d be surrounded by simulacra of simulacra of simulacra on the web. Source: Internet