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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 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.

The Loss Of Quality That Is So Evident At Every Level Of Spectacular Language, From The Objects It Glorifies To The Behavior It Regulates, Stems From The Basic Nature Of A Production System That Shuns Reality. The Commodity Form Reduces Everything To Quantitative Equivalence. The Quantitative Is What It Develops, And It Can Develop Only Within The Quantitative.

The More Powerful The Class, The More It Claims Not To Exist.

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.

What Appears Is Good; What Is Good Appears.