A tribute to Baudrillard

“Faced with the question: why do people watch Big Brother?, Baudrillard suggests the hypothesis of the ‘radical democracy’. In a conventional democracy, the price of fame was merit. Big Brother establishes the ‘radical democracy’: everyone can be famous without any merit, just by becoming visible. Triumph of mediocrity in the age of disposable celebrities” (Juremir Machado da Silva).

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