Yesterday in class I thought we got into a very good conversation about Baudrillard. About what is real and what is not. Then in my class after that we actually started talking about Baudrillard with real vs fake in the native American culture and the show "The Lone Ranger". But in class when we first started talking about Baudrillard Dr. Casey asked the class to think about a quote, "Does reality actually outstrip fiction?" I was thinking for minutes and I just couldn't wrap a thought around it. Then I talked to the person sitting with me and we talked about what reality actually is? Does it exist? If it does, can someone please explain it to me? We then talked about how we thought fiction was wanted more in society. After talking about this I thought I had it figured out until what I believe was Dr. Casey said, "You can watch bloody and scary movies but when it comes to events like Columbine and 9/11 it (was) too hard to watch." After he said this I know longer know where I stand when it comes to reality and fiction and which is wanted more. I suppose that for me, reality does outstrip fiction because I always watch this show called Snapped and it is about the true stories of women who murder their husbands. I am obsessed with this show, but when it comes to scary movies about murder I simply can not watch them, my heart races and I have to turn away. My friends try to figure it our but I tell them it's a waste of time. I am not sure why I am able to watch true stories that set up the murders and show real crime scene pictures of the bloody bodies but I can not watch something of the same sort on the big screen. No sense in trying to understand it because I can't even understand it.
Another interesting thing we talked about in class was the good, evil, sorcery, and simulacric examples. I thought all of these were very good in describing the ways in which they were. I also thought it to be a little funny when somebody said "how can you make a reference to a reality in which you never experienced it? Like Johnny Rockets.
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That is curious that you can watch real images of murders but not film. Also, it is good that you mentions Dr. Cummings Native American Media class. I wish you went into more detail about what we discussed because it is very relevant.
-Starfish
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