“Is this the destiny of man? Is he only happy before he has acquired his reason or after he has lost it?”
― The Sorrows of Young Werther
― The Sorrows of Young Werther
“The spectacle is the nightmare of imprisoned modern society which ultimately expresses nothing more than its desire to sleep. The spectacle is the guardian of sleep.”
― The Society of the Spectacle
― The Society of the Spectacle
“The more he identifies with the dominant images of need, the less he understands his own life and his own desires. The spectacle’s estrangement from the acting subject is expressed by the fact that the individual’s gestures are no longer his own; they are the gestures of someone else who represents them to him.”
― The Society of the Spectacle
― The Society of the Spectacle
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