This world wants to be childish in order to make us believe that the adults are elsewhere, in the "real" world, and to conceal the fact that true childishness is everywhere - that it is that of the adults themselves who come here to act the child in order to foster illusions as to their real childishness.

The Precession of Simulcra, The Hyperreal and the Imaginary - Simulacra and Simulation (1988)