Young people everywhere have been allowed to choose between love and a garbage disposal unit. Everywhere they have chosen the garbage disposal unit.
In societies where modern conditions of production prevail, all of life presents itself as an immense accumulation of spectacles. Everything that was directly lived has moved away into a representation.
In our society now, we prefer to see ourselves living than living.
Where the real world changes into simple images, the simple images become real beings and effective motivations of hypnotic behavior.
Quotations are useful in periods of ignorance or obscurantist beliefs.
The spectacle is not a collection of images, but a social relation among people, mediated by images.
In a world that has REALLY been turned on its head, truth is a moment of falsehood.
Revolution is not 'showing' life to people, but making them live. A revolutionary organization must always remember that its objective is not getting its adherents to listen to convincing talks by expert leaders, but getting them to speak for themselves, in order to achieve, or at least strive toward, an equal degree of participation.
With the destruction of history, contemporary events themselves retreat into a remote and fabulous realm of unverifiable stories, uncheckable statistics, unlikely explanations and untenable reasoning.
The spectacle is the bad dream of a modern society in chains and ultimately expresses nothing more than its wish for sleep. The spectacle is the guardian of that sleep.
... just as early industrial capitalism moved the focus of existence from being to having, post-industrial culture has moved that focus from having to appearing.
The more powerful the class, the more it claims not to exist.
All that once was directly lived has become mere representation.
Boredom is always counter-revolutionary. Always.
The more powerful the class, the more it claims not to exist, and its power is employed above all to enforce this claim. It is modest only on this one point, however, because this officially nonexistent bureaucracy simultaneously attributes the crowning achievements of history to its own infallible leadership. Though its existence is everywhere in evidence, the bureaucracy must be invisible as a class. As a result, all social life becomes insane.
Like lost children we live our unfinished adventures.
He will essentially follow the language of the spectacle, for it is the only one he is familiar with.
Art need no longer be an account of past sensations. It can become the direct organization of more highly evolved sensations. It is a question of producing ourselves, not things that enslave us.
The story of terrorism is written by the state and it is therefore highly instructive… compared with terrorism, everything else must be acceptable, or in any case more rational and democratic.
It is hardly surprising that children should enthusiastically start their education at an early age with the Absolute Knowledge of computer science; while they are unable to read, for reading demands making judgments at every line. Conversation is almost dead, and soon so too will be those who knew how to speak.
Work is only justified by leisure time. To admit the emptiness of leisure time is to admit the impossibility of life.
people who personify the system are indeed well known for not being what they seem to be; they have achieved greatness by embracing a level of reality lower than that of the most insignificant individual life- and everyone knows it.
None of the activity stolen by work can be regained by submitting to what work has produced. - The Society of The Spectacle
What appears is good; what is good appears.
Art ... can become the direct organisation of more highly evolved sensations.
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