The Spectacle Is The Bad Dream Of

The Story Of Terrorism Is Written By The State And It Is Therefore Highly Instructive… Compared With Terrorism, Everything Else Must Be Acceptable, Or In Any Case More Rational And Democratic.

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.

He Will Essentially Follow The Language Of The Spectacle, For It Is The Only One He Is Familiar With.

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.