Generation X exists, if anywhere, in Baudrillard’s hyperreality. It is the product of postmodern media more a simulation of a generation than a real generation. The same is it same is true for its younger siblings, Generation Next, Generation Dot com ,or ,as it were, Generation Whatever. By their very nature, hyperreal simulations real perpetually blurring and self-devouring phenomena. Analyzing the television reality of the Gulf War, for example, can be even more difficult and disturbing than analyzing the real war itself. The analysis of Us. patriot missiles, celebrated as techno- logical marvels even though they never intercepted a single hostile Iraqi scud missile, can acquire a dizzying and disturbing quality, whereas actual killing and death is something most people can gets their minds around. Likewise, the serious, slow discussion of anything that appears on television or in the mass media (e.g. Monica Lewinsky's ads for "Jenny Craig" or the 23 hours of "Millennium" cover age) taxes most peoples' patience and interest. Baudrillard, like the would-be analyst of Generation x, risks nauseating the reader by trying to match the whirl of television's false consciousness in the medium of conceptually ordered printed words.