Beaudrillard Take One: PostNeoModernisticMetaAnalysis and so on.

Is there a way to tell the difference between connections we know are fake and those we cross our fingers are real? We spent a few weeks in the throes of "anything can be connected to anything fever" and are now dealing with the persistent symptoms of this illness (or delicious madness, as I prefer to call it). We looked to semiotics to understand how the language we use influences the nature of the connections we make. Now we are dining with Jean Baudrillard and discussing his choice of entrees (he insists that since duck is so commonly referenced on tables worldwide and its preparations so interchangeable that there is no longer Duck, only hyper-fowl which are indistinguishable from whatever "real" duck has become.