Hyperreality - Simulacra and Simulation - Beaudrillard It's worse than writing history as it happens. History is taking place in virtual reality. Most of them aren't even living in a real world anymore. Think about what you know regarding the 'protest'. There's good reason to think that the entire thing was engineered. That engineered thing is being used to further engineer an outrageous story in the minds of the public, as to what happened. It's falsehood based on falsehood based on falsehood, to the extent that most of people's thoughts/judgments/beliefs are not even, from the start, based on something real. That's hyperreality.