The Spectacle Is Not A Collection Of

In A World That Has Really Been Turned On Its Head, Truth Is A Moment Of Falsehood.

Quotations Are Useful In Periods Of Ignorance Or Obscurantist Beliefs.

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.

As Specialists Of Apparent Life, Stars Serve As Superficial Objects That People Can Identify With In Order To Compensate For The Fragmented Productive Specialisations That They Actually Live.

In Societies Where Modern Conditions Of Productions Prevail, All Of Life Presents Itself As An Immense Accumulation Of Spectacles. Everything That Was Directly Lived Has Moved Away Into Representation. The Images Detached From Every Aspect Of Life Fuse In A Common Stream In Which The Unity Of This Life Can No Longer Be Re-established. Reality Considered Partially Unfolds, In Its Own General Unity As A Pseudo-world Apart, An Object Of Mere Contemplation . . . The Spectacle Is Not A Collection Of Images, But A Social Relation Among People, Mediated By Images.