There Is One Act Par Excellence Which

Freedom Is Completely Without Meaning Unless It Is Related To Necessity, Unless It Represents Victory Over Necessity.

In Reality This Is The Very Reverse Of What We Are Told About The Biblical God, Who Opens Up Freedom For Us, Who Lets Us Make Our Own History, Who Goes With Us On The More Or Less Unheard-of Adventures That We Concoct.

Human Life As A Whole Is Not Inundated By Technique. It Has Room For Activities That Are Not Rationally Or Systematically Ordered. But The Collision Between Spontaneous Activities And Technique Is Catastrophic For The Spontaneous Activities.

Sport Carries On Without Deviation The Mechanical Tradition Of Furnishing Relief And Distraction To The Worker After He Has Finished His Work Proper So That He Is At No Time Independent Of One Technique Or Another. In Sport The Citizen Of The Technical Society Finds The Same Spirit, Criteria, Morality, Actions And Objectives In Short, All The Technical Laws And Customs Which He Encounters In Office Or Factory.

According To The International Institute For Environment And Development, The Annual Amount Spent Globally On Advertising Aimed At Increasing Consumption Topped $430 Billion In 1998.consumer Capitalism Is Dedicated To The Proposition That Production Is Good In Itself, No Matter What Is Produced. The Net Effect Is The Massive Production Of Absurd, Empty And Useless Items Which Are Nevertheless Utterly Serious Since We Earn Our Living From Them, And Dedicate Our Leisure Time To Them.