First off all, I would like to thank Matt for the creation of this blog and his subsequent invitation for me to join him.
Now Matt has posted what has got to be the most astoundingly profound question I have ever seen which requires an equally epic response. Having a very limited capacity for abstract thought, I shall try my best to answer, although not surprisingly, I'll probably miss the intended point altogether, but here it goes. If I get it wrong, Matt, we can always blame the vapors of boiling mercury on my desk which is unduly responsible for my lunacy.
To the matter of truth. To paraphrase a quote about love from La Rochefoucauld: "Truth cannot be found where it does not truly exist, nor can it be hidden from where it truly does." Meaning simply that truth serves only a world which lives by it. In terms of the simulacrum, I have no idea how this fits into it. A simulacrum is a copy of a copy of a copy. Basically a hologram of a hologram of a mirrored image of an imaginary thing.
I know this is as clear as mud, but such is life, and perhaps the human quest fro truth itself. Always seeking and never sought. Hope this helps.
John
P.S. Matt, thanks for the editorial note. I have a bad habit of not breaking up compound thoughts, which if we were, say, German, it wouldn't be so bad, lol.
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