Reaction on Jean Baudrillard

The following reading was pretty difficult to understand and a few of the terms were hard to understand as well. Although it was a very interesting article about simulacra and simulations. He tries to help us understand what simulations are and what they mean. He does that by telling us a Borges’ story and uses a map and replicates the original territory. One thing that he talked about was the real is no longer real, I don’t understand what he means by that exactly.
In today’s world, we have simulacra, which means the generation by models of a real without origin or reality: a hyper real. So what I’m guessing that Baudrillard is saying is that there is too much real, and sometimes the real substitutes for itself? He also argues that there are four phases of the image: one that reflects a basic reality, one that masks or perverts a basic reality, one that masks the absence of a basic reality, and one that bears no relation to any reality.
So with that, what she is trying to say also is that “illusion is not possible.” The only place that illusions are possible is Disneyland or Disneyworld. It is a place of illusions and phantasms. Then again it is said that the real is no longer real. We all want to live a world where we want to believe that nothing is real because our world is changing and is not working in the way people want it too. Another thing is that when you visit those sites such as Disneyland, is that reality does not exist outside those borders but inside they do exist.
Another thing is that children don’t understand all this yet, because the children still have an imagination. They like to go to places like that because they are imagining and want to make their imaginations true. Older students are now aware of all this and they can determine whether it is real or unreal.