It was summed up for Mr Baudrillard by a lone man jogging, oblivious to his surroundings, hearing only the music of his own sound-system and aware only of the statements he himself was making: health, fashion, endurance.

ECONOMIST: Jean Baudrillard

The man who drills home his point on Japanese demography, oblivious to turbulence and sloshing tea, is not a man who loses sight of his goal easily.

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