the lie's as good as the truth if your audience believes you

shades of grey
("...after the rush when you come back down. you're always disappointed. nothing seems to get you high...
...in the morning there are lovers in the streets they look so alive; you- you brush against a stranger and you both apologize...")from Joni Mitchell

(..this has been on my mind for awhile. the combo of J. Baudrillard and J. L. Borges make for me an interesting night of rhetoric...jim)
see an illustrated version of Borges' work at Fantastic Zoology
Baudrillard_Simulacra and Simulations: "Jean Baudrillard"

Simulacra....n. pl. sim·u·la·cra (-lkr, -lkr)
An image or representation.
An unreal or vague semblance.
[Latin simulcrum(from simulre, to simulate. See simulate) + -crum, n. suff.]

"The simulacrum is never that which conceals the truth--it is the truth which conceals that there is none.
The simulacrum is true."
Ecclesiastes