As I read Baudrillard I was confused as to why such references kept on popping from the May 1968 strike in France, and finally I reached the end of that argument. Baudrillard says that the signs that the protesters had drawn, the messages imprinted on those are the true inspirations, and the true media that allows its viewers to see what is going on. In this, he reminds me of William Blake's need to illustrate his books on plates. There's this guy who wrote his major works on plates, he engraved them by hand, and he also painted them, as a means to stimulate all the senses of one, to grasp ones attention as to allow one to see the door of perception. Television portrays many different things at the same time, yet, the way that it allows us to see these myriad of things never changes. We do no interact with the television, but when we see the posters, when we can read the actual grooves printed on a paper, we are able to feel the essence of what is trying to be told. Perhaps this is what Baudrillard is getting at, and maybe I am just reading too into it. He is trying to say that the media is not properly allowing us to sense what is going on. He goes on to say that the reproduction of the media makes everything that it gives us to see trite, overused, lame. Hmm...