The Spectacle Is Not A Collection Of

The Sage Of Toronto... Spent Several Decades Marveling At The Numerous Freedoms Created By A "global Village" Instantly And Effortlessly Accessible To All. Villages, Unlike Towns, Have Always Been Ruled By Conformism, Isolation, Petty Surveillance, Boredom And Repetitive Malicious Gossip About The Same Families. Which Is A Precise Enough Description Of The Global Spectacle's Present Vulgarity.

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.

Art... Can Become The Direct Organization Of More Highly Evolved Sensations.

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.

Tourism, Human Circulation Considered As Consumption Is Fundamentally Nothing More Than The Leisure Of Going To See What Has Become Banal.