IPMAT Indore 2025 · Question 54 of 90 · Verbal Ability & RC

IPMAT Indore 2025 — Question 54

How does Baudrillard engage with the cargo myth?

  1. AHe uses it to describe the suffering of Indigenous people.
  2. BHe uses it to show that consumers should consume more serious objects.
  3. CHe uses it to show that consumption is a blessing.
  4. DHe uses it as a metaphor to critique modern consumption.
Reveal answer
Correct answer
D.He uses it as a metaphor to critique modern consumption.
Reveal solution

Para 2: 'Baudrillard believes that the cargo myth holds an important analogy for the ways in which consumers engage with objects of consumption.'