Watergate was thus nothing but a lure held out by the system to catch its adversaries—a simulation of scandal for regenerative ends. - Jean Baudrillard

For it is with the same imperialism that present-day simulators try to make the real, all of the real, coincide with their simulation models.

Never would the humanities or psychoanalysis have existed if it had been miraculously possible to reduce man to his "rational" behaviors.

The discourse of truth is quite simply impossible. It eludes itself. Everything eludes itself, everything scoffs at its own truth, seduction renders everything elusive. The fury to unveil the truth, to get at the naked truth, the one which haunts all discourses of interpretation, the obscene rage to uncover the secret, is proportionate to the impossibility of ever achieving this. …But this rage, this fury, only bears witness to the eternity of seduction and to the impossibility of mastering it. (p. 73)