Sam’s Reviews > Against the Machine: On the Unmaking of Humanity > Status Update

"The left wants a world without borders that somehow also contains welfare states, while the right wants to defend the ethnic makeup of nations without acknowledging that traditional notions of ethnicity are increasingly impossible in the high-tech globalised world that has resulted from the capitalist economy they have always defended."

"The boundaries between real and fake were already blurring, and soon we would no longer even be able to see them. [...] The sign would no longer point to the signified—it would point to nothing at all. Hyperreality would not simply be confused with reality. It would replace it entirely, and we would all be living in it."