None Of The Activity Stolen By Work

In Our Society Now, We Prefer To See Ourselves Living Than Living.

No Longer Is Science Asked To Understand The World, Or To Improve Any Part Of It. It Is Asked Instead To Immediately Justify Everything That Happens... Spectacular Domination Has Cut Down The Vast Tree Of Scientific Knowledge In Order To Make Itself A Truncheon.

The More He Identifies With The Dominant Images Of Need, The Less He Understands His Own Life And His Own Desires. The Spectacle’s Estrangement From The Acting Subject Is Expressed By The Fact That The Individual’s Gestures Are No Longer His Own; They Are The Gestures Of Someone Else Who Represents Them To Him.

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.

In The Zone Of Perdition Where My Youth Went As If To Complete Its Education, One Would Have Said That The Portents Of An Imminent Collapse Of The Whole Edifice Of Civilization Had Made An Appointment.