Baudrillard

Baudrillard was talking about the repatriating of the Cloisters in New York, resurrecting artifacts of our past, some feeling of authenticity with the mummy. Is there something that compels these repatriating? Is there something in society that just clicks and drives us to start returning and reviving things back towards their original states & sites in an attempt to simulate reality? What happens, do the cloisters in new york suddenly become awkward, too transparent, too glaringly obvious in their artificiality that are sudden sparked into returning it to the original site?

Also, Baudrillard's discussion of power made me think in terms of a relevant issue today. Castro's stepping down had been interesting to me because it was so anticlimactic, in essence the Cuban population in Florida had already celebrated and received closure on Castro's death when he gave over temporary power (to his brother I think) to get his surgery. Baudrillard says "Everything happens as if Mao or Franco had already died several times and had been replaced by his double." Castro had already been long dead in the minds of Cubans, already replaced by his brother Raul (having died any number of times before and during the revolution, while in hiding from Batista's government, while sick). It is just "the modern political imaginary goes increasingly in the direction of delaying, of concealing for as long as possible, the death of the head of state" (25).