“We live in an age of hyperreality, where the authentic is gradually being eclipsed by its endless representations, where every day a new layer of mediation stands between us and the natural world, where forgeries have so viciously attacked the original that they now reign victorious in its place, and as the forgeries themselves are relentlessly replicated we are left with infinite simulations of that which never existed.”

— From The Movie (bewareofimages dot com)

We are not merely ‘left with’ these simulations, we are left serving them, being sacrificed to them, and being evaluated, rejected, and far too often destroyed by them… just like most of the other anciently conserved animals and ecosystems of our world…