the whites have carnivalized—and hence cannibalized—themselves—jean baudrillard

complete quote: “the whites have carnivalized—and hence cannibalized—themselves long before exporting this (economic rationality, growth, productivity, spectacle, etc.) to the whole world.”

from ‘carnival and cannibal’, by jean baudrillard, 2008 

“we may ask ourselves whether these whites… are already figures in a masquerade; we may ask ourselves whether they are not already caricatures of themselves, characters taking themselves for their own masks.”