What Appears Is Good; What Is Good

Looting Is A Natural Response To The Unnatural And Inhuman Society Of Commodity Abundance. It Instantly Undermines The Commodity As Such, And It Also Exposes What The Commodity Ultimately Implies: The Army, The Police And The Other Specialized Detachments Of The State's Monopoly Of Armed Violence.

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.

The More Powerful The Class, The More It Claims Not To Exist.

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.

The Advertisements During Intermissions Are The Truest Reflection Of An Intermission From Life.