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What appears is good; what is good appears.
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Plagiarism is necessary, progress implies it
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Plagiarism
Progress
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Boredom is always counter-revolutionary. Always.
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Boredom
Revolutionary
Always
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Like lost children we live our unfinished adventures.
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Adventure
Children
Lost
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The more powerful the class, the more it claims not to exist.
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Claims
Class
Powerful
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All that once was directly lived has become mere representation.
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Mere
Representation
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All that was once directly lived has become mere representation.
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Mere
Representation
Lived
Directly
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In our society now, we prefer to see ourselves living than living.
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Quotations are useful in periods of ignorance or obscurantist beliefs.
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Belief
Ignorance
Periods
Quotations
Useful
Beliefs
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The spectacle is capital accumulated to the point where it becomes image.
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Art... can become the direct organization of more highly evolved sensations.
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Art
Direct
Organisation
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In a world that has REALLY been turned on its head, truth is a moment of falsehood.
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Moments
Truth Is
World
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Behind the masks of total choice, different forms of the same alienation confront each other.
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Alienation
Choices
Different
Mask
Forms
Choice
Confront
Total
Masks
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The advertisements during intermissions are the truest reflection of an intermission from life.
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Advertisements
Intermission
Reflection
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The spectacle is not a collection of images, but a social relation among people, mediated by images.
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People
Relation
Social
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He will essentially follow the language of the spectacle, for it is the only one he is familiar with.
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Familiar
Language
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I have written much less than most people who write; I have drunk much more than most people who drink.
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Drunk
People
Writing
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Work is only justified by leisure time. To admit the emptiness of leisure time is to admit the impossibility of life.
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Emptiness
Justified
Leisure
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None of the activity stolen by work can be regained by submitting to what work has produced. - The Society of The Spectacle
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Activity
Stolen
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Where the real world changes into simple images, the simple images become real beings and effective motivations of hypnotic behavior.
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Motivation
Real
Simple
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Tourism, human circulation considered as consumption is fundamentally nothing more than the leisure of going to see what has become banal.
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Circulation
Consumption
Leisure
Tourism
Considered
Banal
Nothing See More
Fundamentally
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Young people everywhere have been allowed to choose between love and a garbage disposal unit. Everywhere they have chosen the garbage disposal unit.
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Funny
Love
Garbage
Garbage Disposal
Humorous
Young
Everywhere
Allowed
Love People Young
Been
Between
Choose
Disposal
Unit
Young People
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An organization must always remember that its objective is not getting people to listen to speeches by experts, but getting them to speak for themselves.
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Experts
Organization
People
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... just as early industrial capitalism moved the focus of existence from being to having, post-industrial culture has moved that focus from having to appearing.
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Culture
Existence
Focus
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Everyone accepts that there are inevitably little areas of secrecy reserved for specialists; as regards things in general, many believe they are in on the secret.
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Believe
Littles
Secret
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The spectacle is the bad dream of a modern society in chains and ultimately expresses nothing more than its wish for sleep. The spectacle is the guardian of that sleep.
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Dream
Sleep
Wish
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As specialists of apparent life, stars serve as superficial objects that people can identify with in order to compensate for the fragmented productive specialisations that they actually live.
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Fragmented
Order
People
Specialists
Stars
Superficial
Life Stars People
Life People Live
Apparent
Compensate
Identify
Serve
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The story of terrorism is written by the state and it is therefore highly instructive… compared with terrorism, everything else must be acceptable, or in any case more rational and democratic.
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States
Stories
Terrorism
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Art need no longer be an account of past sensations. It can become the direct organization of more highly evolved sensations. It is a question of producing ourselves, not things that enslave us.
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Art
Organization
Past
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With the destruction of history, contemporary events themselves retreat into a remote and fabulous realm of unverifiable stories, uncheckable statistics, unlikely explanations and untenable reasoning.
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Events
Statistics
Stories
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What is false creates taste, and reinforces itself by knowingly eliminating any possible reference to the authentic. And what is genuine is reconstructed as quickly as possible, to resemble the false.
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Eliminating
Genuine
Taste
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In the zone of perdition where my youth went as if to complete its education, one would have said that the portents of an imminent collapse of the whole edifice of civilization had made an appointment.
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Civilization
Made
Youth
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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.
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Accumulation
Conditions
Immense
Modern
Moved
Representation
Spectacles
Accumulate
Away
Itself
Directly
Production
Societies
Presents
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There is nothing more natural than to consider everything as starting from oneself, chosen as the center of the world; one finds oneself thus capable of condemning the world without even wanting to hear its deceitful chatter.
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Capable
Chatter
Chosen
Condemning
Deceit
Deceitful
Hype
Oneself
World
World Nothing Everything
World Nothing More
Center
Consider
Finds
Thus
Wanting
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people who personify the system are indeed well known for not being what they seem to be; they have achieved greatness by embracing a level of reality lower than that of the most insignificant individual life- and everyone knows it.
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Life
Greatness
Reality
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Ideas improve. The meaning of words participates in the improvement. Plagiarism is necessary. Progress implies it. It embraces an author's phrase, makes use of his expressions, erases a false idea, and replaces it with the right idea.
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Expression
Ideas
Improvement
Plagiarism
Progress
Use
Writing
Words
Author
Idea
Embraces
Expressions
False
Implies
Improve
Makes
Meaning
Meaning Of
Necessary
Phrase
Right Idea
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No longer is science asked to understand the world, or to improve any part of it. It is asked instead to immediately justify everything that happens... spectacular domination has cut down the vast tree of scientific knowledge in order to make itself a truncheon.
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Cutting
Order
Tree
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Among the small number of things that I have liked and known how to do well, what I have assuredly known how to do best is drink. Even though I have read a lot, I have drunk even more. I have written much less than most people who write; but I have drunk much more than most people who drink.
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People
Small Numbers
Writing
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Looting is a natural response to the unnatural and inhuman society of commodity abundance. It instantly undermines the commodity as such, and it also exposes what the commodity ultimately implies: the army, the police and the other specialized detachments of the state's monopoly of armed violence.
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Army
Police
Violence
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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.
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Acting
Desire
Needs
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It is hardly surprising that children should enthusiastically start their education at an early age with the Absolute Knowledge of computer science; while they are unable to read, for reading demands making judgments at every line. Conversation is almost dead, and soon so too will be those who knew how to speak.
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Age
Children
Reading
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Revolution is not 'showing' life to people, but making them live. A revolutionary organization must always remember that its objective is not getting its adherents to listen to convincing talks by expert leaders, but getting them to speak for themselves, in order to achieve, or at least strive toward, an equal degree of participation.
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Order
Organization
People
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The loss of quality that is so evident at every level of spectacular language, from the objects it glorifies to the behavior it regulates, stems from the basic nature of a production system that shuns reality. The commodity form reduces everything to quantitative equivalence. The quantitative is what it develops, and it can develop only within the quantitative.
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Quality
Loss
Reality
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The Sage of Toronto... spent several decades marveling at the numerous freedoms created by a "global village" instantly and effortlessly accessible to all. Villages, unlike towns, have always been ruled by conformism, isolation, petty surveillance, boredom and repetitive malicious gossip about the same families. Which is a precise enough description of the global spectacle's present vulgarity.
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Boredom
Gossip
Sage
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The more powerful the class, the more it claims not to exist, and its power is employed above all to enforce this claim. It is modest only on this one point, however, because this officially nonexistent bureaucracy simultaneously attributes the crowning achievements of history to its own infallible leadership. Though its existence is everywhere in evidence, the bureaucracy must be invisible as a class. As a result, all social life becomes insane.
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Achievement
Class
Powerful
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Images detached from every aspect of life merge into a common stream, and the former unity of life is lost forever. Apprehended in a partial way, reality unfolds in a new generality as a pseudo-world apart, solely as an object of contemplation. The tendency toward the specialization of images-of-the-world finds its highest expression in the world of the autonomous image, where deceit deceives itself. The spectacle in its generality is a concrete inversion of life, and, as such the autonomous movement of non-life.
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Expression
Forever
Reality
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In societies where modern conditions of productions prevail, all of life presents itself as an immense accumulation of spectacles. Everything that was directly lived has moved away into representation. The images detached from every aspect of life fuse in a common stream in which the unity of this life can no longer be re-established. Reality considered partially unfolds, in its own general unity as a pseudo-world apart, an object of mere contemplation . . . The spectacle is not a collection of images, but a social relation among people, mediated by images.
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People
Reality
Unity
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