One of the most remarkable features of the modern age is how even our dreams are passively received. Even our thoughts are colonised. Our private experiences are just one more space to be invaded, one more commodity to be exchanged, bought, sold and passively consumed.
'In societies dominated by modern conditions of production, life is presented as an immense accumulation of 'spectacles'. Everything that was directly lived has receded into a representation.'
'Fragmented views of reality regroup themselves into a new unity as a separate pseudo-world that can only be looked at. The spectacle is a concrete inversion of life, an autonomous movement of the non living.'
'The spectacle is not a collection of images: it is a social relation between people mediated by images.'
In all its particular manifestations - news, propaganda, advertising, entertainment, - the spectacle represents the dominant model of life.
'In a world that is really upside down, the true is a moment of the false.'
(The spectacle) is the sun that never sets over the empire of modern passivity.
The spectacle is able to subject human beings to itself because the economy has already subjugated them. The first stage of the economy's domination of social life brought about the evident degradation of being into having - human fulfilment was no longer equated with what one was, but what one possessed.
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