Simulacrum Reading

The message of the "Simulacrum and Simulations" text by Jean Baudrillard was simple. Any false construction of reality is doomed to fail because those who experience it are ultimately going to be able to hold it up to perfect scrutiny. Reality is something that interpreted differently by everyone, but we are still able to understand that everyone is conscious to some degree. It is for this reason that huge empires are doomed to fail because they cannot possibly convince everyone to buy into their lies. As in the example of Watergate, the US government created a scapegoat, Richard Nixon, in order to convince the world that there was some sort of justice enacted by his resignation. But did Nixon go to jail? No, he simply retired to some big estate just like every single president in the history of the United States who didn't get assassinated, excluding Jimmy Carter, that hippy had nothing but his peanut farm to go back to. So, in conclusion, the government totally sucks.