The Spectacle Is Capital Accumulated To The

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.

Tourism, Human Circulation Considered As Consumption Is Fundamentally Nothing More Than The Leisure Of Going To See What Has Become Banal.

The Loss Of Quality That Is So Evident At Every Level Of Spectacular Language, From The Objects It Glorifies To The Behavior It Regulates, Stems From The Basic Nature Of A Production System That Shuns Reality. The Commodity Form Reduces Everything To Quantitative Equivalence. The Quantitative Is What It Develops, And It Can Develop Only Within The Quantitative.

The More Powerful The Class, The More It Claims Not To Exist, And Its Power Is Employed Above All To Enforce This Claim. It Is Modest Only On This One Point, However, Because This Officially Nonexistent Bureaucracy Simultaneously Attributes The Crowning Achievements Of History To Its Own Infallible Leadership. Though Its Existence Is Everywhere In Evidence, The Bureaucracy Must Be Invisible As A Class. As A Result, All Social Life Becomes Insane.

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.