The Only Issue Worth Fighting For
Tuesday July 21, 2009
Imagine the amazing good fortune of the generation that gets to see the end of the world. This is as marvellous as being there in the beginning. How could one not wish for that with all one’s heart? How could one not lend one’s feeble resources to bringing it about?
To have been there at the beginning would have been fantastic. But we arrived too late. Only the end remains. Let us therefore apply ourselves to seeing things~values, concepts, institutions~perish, seeing them disappear. This is the only issue worth fighting for.
~Jean Baudrillard
Fragments: Cool Memories III, 1990-1995 ~ (Tr. Emily Agar) ~ London : Verso, 1997 / pgs 33-4
