"No one can tell where the public image ends and Obama begins." - QT

President Obama is not a real person - he is a simulacrum of a president.

The philosopher Plato described two types of images or copies of reality. The first is an accurate representation of a real object. The second is a simulacrum: an image which is intentionally distorted in order to seem more real to the observer from their perspective. An example of this is the Parthenon in Greece. The true object is a building. The image is a representation of a perfectly engineered, majestic structure. The base of the Parthenon was intentionally curved so that observers would see the base as a perfectly straight line from their visual perspective.

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