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The multiplication of individual sects should not fool us: the important point is that the whole of America is preoccupied with the sect as a moral institution, with its immediate demand for beatification, its material efficacity, its compulsion for justification, and doubtless also with its madness and frenzy.

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
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Ḻāṉ Pōtriyā
Individual
Madness
Multiplication
Also
Material
Doubtless
America
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Frenzy
Whole
Materials
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Demand
Compulsion
Fool
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Point
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