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. - Jean Baudrillard

If the thought enunciates an object as a truth, it is only as a challenge to this object's own self-fulfillment.

To dissimulate is to pretend not to have what one has. To simulate is to feign to have what one doesn't have. One implies a presence, the other an absence. But it is more complicated than that because simulating is not pretending: "Whoever fakes an illness can simply stay in bed and make everyone believe he is ill. Whoever simulates an illness produces in himself some of the symptoms" (Littré). Therefore, pretending, or dissimulating, leaves the principle of reality intact: the difference is always clear, it is simply masked, whereas simulation threatens the difference between the "true" and the "false," the "real" and the "imaginary."

Nothing is wholly obvious without becoming enigmatic. Reality itself is too obvious to be true.