“Through ceaseless spectacle, capitalism conducts an “opium war” that reduces potentially active citizens into passive, pliable spectators: overwhelmed into inertia by the sheer scale of things that are happening, alienated from their own desires…”
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Guy Debord: We Have Been Reduced to Spectators in a Society of Endless Spectacle | Philosophy Break
In his prescient 1967 work The Society of the Spectacle, Guy Debord argues that modern consumer society increasingly replaces lived experience with its representation. Rather than actively engaging in...
