The Baudrillardian “Discourse of the Good”: Writing a Cinematic Script to Seduce
the Masses into Embracing a Simulated War in the Film Wag the Dog
By Keith Moser, Mississippi State University
In his provocative essay entitled The Gulf War Did Not Take Place, the highly
original and unorthodox French philosopher Jean Baudrillard declares in reference to
the virtual reality of the Gulf War carefully filtered through our digital screens, “the day
there is a real war you will not even be 0