Jean Baudrillard explained in his book that what we’ve seen from the Gulf war is not the war or the real event but the Media event.
The war did not took place because the audience saw a zero dead war, a clean one. seeing only what the media and the military institution wanted us to see.
The Western military excluded all contact- annihilating the enemy from a distance- if the armies, how can a war take place? Apache helicopters suing night vision gunning down blind targets on the ground a suitable metaphor. As an audience, we only experienced a virtual war.
The real disaster appeared to be ecological: we saw more dead birds than dead bodies. The audience did not see, Iraq was destroyed, all its infrastructure, hospitals, many dead, injured.
The simulated war not a real war.
This digital war started to be more important and more real than the reality => hyper reality.
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