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There is no human reason to be here, except for the sheer ecstasy of being crowded together.

Jean Baudrillard

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Jean Baudrillard
Age: 77 †
Born: 1929
Born: July 29
Died: 2007
Died: March 6
Anthropologist
Literary Critic
Philosopher
Photographer
Professor
Sociologist
Translator
Rheims
Ḻāṉ Pōtriyā
Reason
Human
Humans
Crowded
Ecstasy
Sheer
Except
Together

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