An essay I wrote for a class last semester. It isn’t perfect but I think it expands on some of Baudrillard’s ideas in some interesting ways. Please let me know what you think and I would definitely recommend you read the Baudrillard essay if this interests you, it is gold from start to finish, and he branches out quite a bit more, while I just focused on religion in this one.

In this age when we think of weapons, we tend to think of aircraft, electronic guidance systems, bombs and missiles. Sophisticated star wars systems may come to mind or huge warships and aircraft carriers or even chemical or nuclear weapons.
Of course that has not always been the case.

The holes that I have poked in the logic of the being known as Santa Clause.