The Spectacle Is Capital Accumulated To The

Quotations Are Useful In Periods Of Ignorance Or Obscurantist Beliefs.

People Who Personify The System Are Indeed Well Known For Not Being What They Seem To Be; They Have Achieved Greatness By Embracing A Level Of Reality Lower Than That Of The Most Insignificant Individual Life- And Everyone Knows It.

In The Zone Of Perdition Where My Youth Went As If To Complete Its Education, One Would Have Said That The Portents Of An Imminent Collapse Of The Whole Edifice Of Civilization Had Made An Appointment.

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.