In A World That Has Really Been

Ideas Improve. The Meaning Of Words Participates In The Improvement. Plagiarism Is Necessary. Progress Implies It. It Embraces An Author's Phrase, Makes Use Of His Expressions, Erases A False Idea, And Replaces It With The Right Idea.

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

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.

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.

None Of The Activity Stolen By Work Can Be Regained By Submitting To What Work Has Produced. - The Society Of The Spectacle