Meghan Markle’s Family Photos Stretch Belief to Breaking Point

Hollie Adams / REUTERS When Meghan Markle shared a carousel of recent photos on Instagram this week, she no doubt wanted to project an image of her family shedding the cares of recent weeks on a well-deserved European vacation. Instead, her pics summoned up the ghost of the Gauloises-smoking, wine-drinking, pinball-playing French philosopher Jean Baudrillard (1929-2007). The central claim of this chin-stroking king of the media saturation age was set out in Simulacra and Simulation (1981), in…