ISN'T IT AMAZING WHAT WE DEEM IMPORTANT: The Society of the Spectacle: AND WHAT WE DON'T

[Orwellian_Ghost]

1.

In societies where modern conditions of production prevail, all of life presents itself as an immense accumulation of spectacles. Everything that was directly lived has moved away into a representation.

2.

The images detached from every aspect of life fuse in a common stream in which the unity of this life can no longer be reestablished. Reality considered partially unfolds, in its own general unity, as a pseudo-world apart, an object of mere contemplation. The specialization of images of the world is completed in the world of the autonomous image, where the liar has lied to himself. The spectacle in general, as the concrete inversion of life, is the autonomous movement of the non-living.



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The spectacle presents itself simultaneously as all of society, as part of society, and as instrument of unification. As a part of society it is specifically the sector which concentrates all gazing and all consciousness. Due to the very fact that this sector is separate, it is the common ground of the deceived gaze and of false consciousness, and the unification it achieves is nothing but an official language of generalized separation.



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The spectacle is not a collection of images, but a social relation among people, mediated by images.

http://www.marxists.org/reference/archive/debord/society.htm">LINK

[MadMaddie]

1. Is it really what society deems important or is it that American

society has allowed most media outlet to be owned by 5 pr less owners. To make matters worse these media owners are allowed to cover what they want the public to define as important.

Until media is regulated and broken up we will continue to experience what we are experiencing.

The UK gets the news more unfiltered than America....

[Orwellian_Ghost]

2. Scarcely

but somewhat.

And of course the UK is notorious for it's tabloid journo and it's public infatuation with celebrity/coliseum events.

American "society" never allowed for media consolidation- they had no say- this was orchestrated every step of the way by a very well organized small group of influential power brokers.

Agree on how it is what we deem to be important is manufactured.