None Of The Activity Stolen By Work

Work Is Only Justified By Leisure Time. To Admit The Emptiness Of Leisure Time Is To Admit The Impossibility Of Life.

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.

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 Pseudo-world Apart, Solely As An Object Of Contemplation. The Tendency Toward The Specialization Of Images-of-the-world 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 Movement Of Non-life.

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.

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.