Perfect Crime

The dual misfit between the world and its appearances, and between our thoughts and the world, cast truth into doubt for Baudrillard, persuading him that the world's reality is like a perfect or unsolvable crime - a dreadful enigma offering few clues about its fate, its meaning or why it came into being (PC, lEx). The world may even be a crime from the very beginning - an 'original crime' marked by illusion or 'the world in the play PERFECT CRIME 153 of seduction and appearances' (PC, 2). Here, '[t]he perfection of the crime lies in the fact that it has always-already been accomplished ... A misappropriation of the world as it is, before it even shows itself' (PC, 1).