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Anders, the ascetic killjoy, performs a sort of brutal "Ludovico Technique" on us, forcing open our eyelids and revealing the sinister aspect of innocuous things like crossword puzzles and chewing gum.

Debord & Baudrillard rendered superfluous in a couple of long footnotes, 15 & 20 years before their respective tomes saw the light of day.(along with a sharp analysis of the way the Surrealistes (Debord's intellectual parents) were largely responsible for the recuperation-by-the-spectscle of the concept of alienation🤯)

"...Some of our contemporaries even regard historical figures as non-conformists --- suspicious eccentrics who obviously seem to expect some sort of special treatment. Instead of living in the present, as all honest people do today, they prefer inhabiting the cave of the has-been...."😂😂

"...Some of our contemporaries even regard historical figures as non-conformists --- suspicious eccentrics who obviously seem to expect some sort of special treatment. Instead of living in the present, as all honest people do today, they prefer inhabiting the cave of the has-been...."😂😂

"Others ( as they prove by their reactions to historical films and the like) deem historical figures positively comical. They treat them as provincials of time - people who didn't grow up in the metropolitan "present" and thus act like the village idiots of history or superstitious backwoodsmen. Every electronic device that had not yet been invented back then is treated as one of their touching defects....."😂