Blog post #2: Response to Rameses, or Rose-Coloured Ressurection

In this section of the book, Baudrillard writes about the idea of science and the apprehension of its object destroying the objects itself. While noticing that Baudrillard seems to take a somewhat too negative view on this problem, I find Baudrillard's idea very interesting and representational of the truth.

About his example of the Tasaday or the Indians, I do not completely agree with his idea. He stated that by sending them back to their forests, or, their "primitive state", ethnologists were trying to "sacrifice" them, thus leading to the death of every object they study in general. However, I believe that for the Tasaday or the Indians themselves, being back with forests is going back home, being able to live again, not being "sacrificed", as said by Baudrillard. Still, I completely agree with Baudrillard's example of museums. In my opinion, zoos and animal researches are very similar in the way they imprison captive animals, trying to mimic their natural habitats with some trees or small ponds, creating small cages as simulacra, killing the animals themselves. It is just one example among many others simulacra we created for ourselves. And it is funny how we are also just Tasaday, simulacra living in a bigger simulation. Karma!