In Our Society Now, We Prefer To

Like Lost Children We Live Our Unfinished Adventures.

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.

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.

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.

Everyone Accepts That There Are Inevitably Little Areas Of Secrecy Reserved For Specialists; As Regards Things In General, Many Believe They Are In On The Secret.