Meghan Markle’s Family Photos Stretch Belief to Breaking Point

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When Meghan Markle shared a carousel of https://www.instagram.com/meghan/?hl=en" rel="" target="_self" title="https://www.instagram.com/meghan/?hl=en">recent photos on Instagram this week, she no doubt wanted to project an image of her family shedding the cares of recent months on a well-deserved European vacation.

Instead, her pics summoned up the ghost of the Gauloises-smoking, wine-drinking, pinball-playing French philosopher Jean Baudrillard (1929-2007).

The central claim of this chin-stroking king of the media saturation age was set out in Simulacra and Simulation (1981), in which he argued that we have passed beyond the point of struggling to tell the real from its representation.

The struggle is over.

The simulation won.

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