![]() As we move through 2020 my sense is that this chimera of hyperreality is going to expand. The result of all this is what I would name as hyperreality. It will no longer be the jagged pill we are forced to swallow, but the smooth pill we are willing to pop. This increasing void that attracts us, I suggest, marks a meltdown of our consensus reality, which will further increase as we move through the year ahead.Īs the structure of our current reality further breaks down, our markers of differences and contradictions will further blur, making them seem smooth rather than jagged. As sociologist Jean Baudrillard so aptly put it – The attraction of the void is irresistible. One result of this is that signs and signals that once stood as our guideposts are losing their meaning and becoming indistinguishable from false realities. Reality – whatever that is or was – has been gradually retreating behind a spectacle of make-believe. ![]() Many of us are asking – is reality broken? It almost seems so. The year ahead into 2020 will continue a process that has already begun and which we are seeing unfolding around us across the globe. ![]()
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