killacam 2/15 zizek and baudrillard

The posts about 9/11 very interesting and personal for me because i live in New York and i remember all the commotion that day. Anyways Baudrillard explanation of how powerfult he images were was very interesting. The role the images played was negative and positive. The way he explained that it was used to exploit at the same time was used to educate people at the event really affected the country in a weird way. The way people responded to the images of violence with immediate positiveness was interesting. Such a terrible event brought the contry together. People were so affected byt he images that were played continuously on the news. The leads directly into the question of how some people did not take the images as real. Zizek explains it as it hard to extracate the real form the ficiton in a spectacle. And since we are used ot seeing sectacle of that nature on the big screen its hard for us to interpret in a way in which we understand. I took as the week that 9/11 happened was the most surreal week. I honestly cant remember what happened that week because it was so devastating. Its like it was all a type of dream and this is what i think he was trying to get at.