MMMM Baudrillard, Hyperreality and Simulacra....it all kinda makes my pants tight (If I had any).

My Documentation for hyperreality involves what both you, in reading this, and I, In writing this, are doing right now. We are participating as fictional characters (which may or may not be modeled after our "real" selves) in an internet game which involves interaction with the "real" world. We are completing physical tasks which are clearly stated here (http://www.sf0.org/disclaimer/) to be fictional. In exchange for completing these tasks, an unreal entity (your character) receives credit, points, prestige, and experience. The line between life and virtual life; the real and hyperreal is indistinguishable.

Only when you separate the motivations of those involved does the difference become apparent.

Example OOC: I could go outside right now and create a comfortable space within a bus stop; a "real" act, but I am not motivated to do so. My Character is not a high enough level to receive that task nor is he/she (I’ll decide later) the correct faction to receive points alone, Therefore the bus stop on 25th and Geary will remain uncomfortable until such time as I am enlisted to collaborate on said fictional task. I am sitting here instead in mid discourse on conceptual social theory when I should be out the door and half way to the mission so as not to be late to an art opening thereby saving myself from a long cold night on the couch. Yet where do my priorities lie? The border between the Real and Hyperreal are truly blurred. HOT SEXY SEX!

As Baudrillard and other contemporary social theorists have said, the hyperreal in our Information Society goes mostly unnoticed. It has become such an integral part of who we are that this existence is assumed to be the norm. How many more things in our lives are given a quantitative or emotional value where none really exists? Is it better to revel in those things or destroy them? you know my awnser, I gots a big red = by my name.