Симулякр у Бодрийяра "превзошел" историю: он создал "массы"...

Baudrillard’s simulacrum "surpassed" history: he created the "masses" (instead of classes) and they stopped the historical process. "Masses" - the silent majority, a black hole absorbing the social; they gravitate to a physical and statistical form, at the same time not social and super-social, completely social. They cannot be controlled by any political power, but the masses give rise to the illusions of power, the illusions of being power; the functioning of all modern systems is grafted onto the body of this vague being of the masses. The masses cannot be represented anywhere, by anyone or anything. They exist beyond and beyond democratic representation; paradoxically, they combine supercontrollability and the catastrophic threat of total deregulation. They cannot be led astray or mystified, because they do not move anywhere and are not occupied with anything. They absorb all energy and information, while dissolving everything social and everything antisocial. The masses give tautological answers to all questions, for in fact they are silent - they are silent, like animals.