- 30 Nov 2020 13:46
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Guy Debord was a radical film-maker and writer who contributed many inspirational slogans and notions to students and other agitators in the late 60s.
He theorized that humans had "lost their humanity" and were trapped in a deadened life of "watching" in order to be programmed to live a certain "dead time" life.
A video called "The Society of the Spectacle" uses images and quotes from Debord's important book of the same name.
As Internet content-producers and readers-followers, are we part of the Society of the Spectacle, or are we trying to resist and ultimately destroy it?
Susan Roberts wrote:“Live Without Dead Time:” Guy Debord’s Last Shot
...To Debord’s mind, we have become enslaved to a form of life which not only dehumanises us, but lulls us into a state of comatose compliance.
Accordingly, his goal was not to further the demands of any particular interest group, but to highlight the shared emptiness of our degraded existence. Debord blamed this desolation on the fact that life had become completely colonised by capitalism. To the extent that even our relationships with each other are now reflected through the prism of the market.
Like many at the time, Debord believed that the Left had betrayed the working class in accepting the so called ‘post war consensus’, which insisted on the ‘logic of the market.’ By accepting the promise of jobs over power, the Left had failed those they were supposed to represent and condemned them to irreversible enslavement.
And not just the working class, for now all of society was caught up in a rampant consumerism from which there was no escape. Debord saw how that fatal acceptance had locked us into a global system, creating “one consensual organisation of the world through the market”: a totality we can neither escape nor change....
Guy Debord was a radical film-maker and writer who contributed many inspirational slogans and notions to students and other agitators in the late 60s.
He theorized that humans had "lost their humanity" and were trapped in a deadened life of "watching" in order to be programmed to live a certain "dead time" life.
A video called "The Society of the Spectacle" uses images and quotes from Debord's important book of the same name.
As Internet content-producers and readers-followers, are we part of the Society of the Spectacle, or are we trying to resist and ultimately destroy it?
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The goal is to use Afghanistan to wash money out of the tax bases of the US and Europe through Afghanistan and back into the hands of a transnational security elite.
The goal is an endless war, not a successful war.
— Julian Assange
The goal is to use Afghanistan to wash money out of the tax bases of the US and Europe through Afghanistan and back into the hands of a transnational security elite.
The goal is an endless war, not a successful war.
— Julian Assange