“Seduction is the world’s elementary dynamic… All this has changed significantly for us, at least in appearance. For what has happened to good and evil? Seduction hurls them against one another, and unites them beyond meaning, in a paroxysm [sudden outbreak of emotion] of intensity and charm.”

— Jean Baudrillard

Source: 1980s, The Ecstasy of Communication (1987), p. 59

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French sociologist and philosopher 1929–2007

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