The simulacrum is never that which conceals the truth–it is the truth which conceals that there is none.
The simulacrum is true.
To dissimulate is to feign not to have what one has. To simulate is to feign to have what one hasn’t. One implies a presence, the other an absence.
Jean Baudrillard, Selected Writings, ed. Mark Poster (Stanford; Stanford University Press, 1988), pp.166-184
i had a feeling you’d say something like that…