17 Feb 2012, Posted by Virginia Konchan in Blog, 0 Comments Tagged Dan Gilbert, fake bacon, post-everything age, Richard Rorty, Schopenhauer

Synthetic Happiness

by Virgina Konchan

What is the most perfect metaphor for synthetic happiness, which Gilbert argues is virtually indistinguishable from natural happiness, both as it is felt (internalized) and shared? Fake bacon? 3-D movies? Any form of cultural simulacra, in the Baudrillardian sense of the term?