>>1336954Thats exactly what we have right now, the citizens are just turned into mindless consumer slaves.
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The whole life of those societies in which modern conditions of production prevail presents itself as
an immense accumulation of spectacles. All that once was directly lived has become mere
representation.
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Images detached from every aspect of life merge into a common stream, and the former unity of life
is lost forever. Apprehended in a partial way, reality unfolds in a new generality as a pseudoworld
apart, solely as anobject ofcontemplation. Thetendency toward the specialization ofimagesoftheworld
finds its highest expression in the world of the autonomous image, where deceit deceives
itself. The spectacle in its generality is a concrete inversion of life, and, as such, the autonomous
movementofnonlife.
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The spectacle appears at once as society itself, as a part of society and as a means of unification. As
a part of society, it is that sector where all attention, all consciousness, converges. Being isolated
and precisely forthatreasonthissectoristhe locus ofillusionand false consciousness; the unity it
imposesismerelytheofficial language ofgeneralized separation.
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The spectacle is not a collection of images; rather, it is a social relationship between people that is
mediatedbyimages.
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The spectacle cannot be understood either as a deliberate distortion of the visual world or as a
product of the technology of the mass dissemination of images. It is far better viewed as a
weltanschauung that has been actualized, translated into the material realm a world view
transformedintoan objectiveforce.
http://www.antiworld.se/project/references/texts/The_Society%20_Of%20_The%20_Spectacle.pdf 
