[Newspoetry] Hyper-reality Syndrome?

[DL Emerick]

Hyper-reality Syndrome?

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http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/6425389.stm
French thinker Baudrillard dies 

Baudrillard was
a prolific writer,
penning more than 50 works --
French sociologist and philosopher
Jean Baudrillard has died aged 77
at his home in Paris
following a long illness.
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Unless man sees it,
he doesn't believe it.

Spectacle now is global,
In many senses of slight:
vision permits no revision,
No restructuring of events
Beyond primary sequence,
The séance of images.

Baudrillard died.
I wasn't there to see it.
Nor did I see that story.
I didn't believe his story
As I saw history otherwise.
I, too, see history darkly,
For I have consciousness,
But I see the future brightly.

To me that is how man "is" -- his nature --
He craves darkness when his way is evil;
he craves light when his ways are good --
which way a man will be is undetermined,
his consciousness only reflects his ways,
consciousness does not cause man ways,
but either conscience or pleasure may.

I chant, "Sociology is not philosophy,
There is no definition of man,
Nor even any proper descriptions --
Such empirical matters are accidents
And lead to false consciousness;"
To this I cite Baudrillard as datum.

Philosophy is prescription,
A lesson I learned from Derrida,
Though others might have taught me, too.
Derrida did not teach this fact, though.
You can read D's Pharmakon piece,
In Grammatological Investigations,
To find the source of this lesson.