In A World That Has Really Been

Like Lost Children We Live Our Unfinished Adventures.

Quotations Are Useful In Periods Of Ignorance Or Obscurantist Beliefs.

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.

Where The Real World Changes Into Simple Images, The Simple Images Become Real Beings And Effective Motivations Of Hypnotic Behavior.

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.