The More Powerful The Class, The More

Behind The Masks Of Total Choice, Different Forms Of The Same Alienation Confront Each Other.

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.

What Appears Is Good; What Is Good Appears.

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.

Young People Everywhere Have Been Allowed To Choose Between Love And A Garbage Disposal Unit. Everywhere They Have Chosen The Garbage Disposal Unit.