Quotations Are Useful In Periods Of Ignorance

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.

What Appears Is Good; What Is Good Appears.

The Spectacle Is Capital Accumulated To The Point Where It Becomes Image.

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

In Our Society Now, We Prefer To See Ourselves Living Than Living.