Pat was feeling hyperreal so Ben explains the wasted landscape described by French postmodernist/fuckboi Jean Baudrillard. This ham-faced prick identified the extent to which we live in a simulated reality constructed by the exchange of empty symbols tenuously supported by the unjustified foundation of capitalism. This dude inspired The Matrix but not in the way you think. Instead of a computer simulation, we live in an economic simulation, where everything is alright (hypernormal) but actually draining us of life, love, and meaning. Goooooood God.