I'm Rich Bitch #5

What do you want to do with when you grow up? I often asked people. Mostly they want to be rich. They want to have lots of money. I read in an article of The Los Angeles Times that the average UCLA college student wants to be a millionaire. I asked my fellow classmates here at CSUN and they too responded with the same answer. The reason is not so clear. Some students even assume the reason is obvious. We hear a lot of songs about money and the desire for it so for our society becoming rich has become common sense. But the question remains, Why do we want to be rich? This is the perfect example for a postmodern analysis. We are a culture of models and signs and we have lost all contact with the real world that preceded the model or map. So the sign for the idea of wealth has been lost its meaning over time. We want to be rich just to be rich but even in wealth I think most of us don't know what that really constitute. So lets say that we want to be rich because in wealth we will be able to do what we want, have the things we want and the people we want. Money then symbolizes choice or freedom. Yet the postmodern culture to Baudrillard is artificial because we have lost all ability to make sense of the real. So now if we deconstruct this word "money" we we still have no idea what choice or freedom is or what it means. We lost the ability to distinguish between the real and the simulacra. This explain the fixation we have towards the wealth of others and why we aspire to it. We desire only the simulacra without really knowing if its real. As Michael Foucault wanted people to know in his theory "is to show people that they are much freer than they feel."What we accept as true can be destroyed  criticized and never absolute.