IPMAT Indore 2025 · Question 52 of 90 · Verbal Ability & RC

IPMAT Indore 2025 — Question 52

What is Baudrillard's position on consumption?

  1. AIt is an irrational process.
  2. BIt is a positive process.
  3. CIt is a utilitarian process.
  4. DIt is an egalitarian process.
Reveal answer
Correct answer
A.It is an irrational process.
Reveal solution

Baudrillard frames consumption as magical thinking — consumers chase 'signs of happiness' expecting a miracle. This is fundamentally irrational behaviour.