[wolvesechoes]

> Specifically Jean Baudrillard describes copies of copies with decreasing relavence and quality. But more sinisterly, the loss of knowing what is real, important, safe, efficacious.

> His work builds extensively on Plato, Lucretius, and Deleuze's concept of the Simulacrum.

Not really, Baudrillard is far more nuanced than "it's all fake", doesn't say much about "quality" (actually, hyperreal is "more real than real", and simulation is better than thing being simulated - that's why it is so pervasive), and he takes much more from Debord than Plato.

I apologize, but your comment seems to me based on YT video essays or LLM summaries, not on Baudrillard's writing.