Spectacular Times

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"Without a doubt our epoch prefers the image to the real thing, the copy to the orginal, the representation to the reality, appearance to being. What is sacred for it is only illusion. More than that, the sacred grows in it's eyes to the extent that truth diminshes and illusion increases, to such an extent that the peak of illusion is for it the peak of the sacred."

Fuerbach

We live in a Spectacular Society. That is, our whole life is surrounded by an immense accumulation of Spectacles. Things that were once directly lived are now lived by proxy.

Once an experience is take out of the real world it becomes a commodity. As a commodity the spectacular is developed to the detriment of the real. It becomes a substitute for experience.

Consumer.....

or Commodity?

The commodity is checked for quality.

....And everybody wants to breathe and nobody can breathe and some people say "we'll be able to breathe later...." - Paris graffiti, 1968

The dreams are dreamt and found wanting

Dissatisfaction and frustration may bring demands to end the Society of the Spectacle.

....But the demands are hijacked and become part of the Spectacle.

I'll show you my Spectacle....

....If you'll show me yours.

DON'T PANIC!

Not the Spectacle of the end of society....