just as it is

Just as it is.

USA | Wednesday, January 9, 2013 | 5 photos

America:
"This is the only country which gives you the
opportunity to be so brutally naive: things, faces, skies, and deserts are expected to
be simply what they are. This is the land of the ‘just as it is’.
America is neither dream nor reality. It is a hyperreality It is a hyperreality because it is a Utopia which has behaved from the very beginning as though it were already
achieved. Everything here is real and pragmatic, and yet it is all the stuff of dreams too.
And what is there to criticize which has not been criticized a thousand times before? What you have to do is enter the fiction of America, enter America as fiction." Jean Baudrillard