Hyperreality And The Common Man

Someone read my post on Hyperreality and Jean Baudrillard and said I was gibbering nonsense. Not so. Consider this: Money is essentially a promise by a government to pay. Money has no intrinsic value. The Money System works because everyone plays the game: the government promises to pay, and we accept the promise. Thus, Money is an instance of Hyperreality. (This maybe why Baudrillard wrote so much about Economics.) Money derives its particular effectiveness from its ability to quanitify and to be exactly quantified.