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“For less than the cost of a Big Mac, fries and a Coke, you can buy a loaf of fresh bread and some good cheese or roast beef, which you will enjoy much more.”
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“The equipment-free aspect of reality here has become the height of artifice; the sight of immediate reality has become an orchid in the land of technology.”
― Illuminations: Essays and Reflections
― Illuminations: Essays and Reflections
“Witness, for instance, the establishment of settled ‘alternative’ or ‘independent’ cultural zones, which endlessly repeat older gestures of rebellion and contestation as if for the first time. ‘Alternative’ and ‘independent’ don’t designate something outside mainstream culture; rather, they are styles, in fact the dominant styles, within the mainstream.”
― Capitalist Realism: Is There No Alternative?
― Capitalist Realism: Is There No Alternative?
“The spectacle presents itself as a vast inaccessible reality that can never be questioned. Its sole message is: “What appears is good; what is good appears.” The passive acceptance it demands is already effectively imposed by its monopoly of appearances, its manner of appearing without allowing any reply.”
― Society of the Spectacle
― Society of the Spectacle
“Americans believe in facts, but not in facticity. They do not know that facts are
factitious, as their name suggests.”
― America
factitious, as their name suggests.”
― America
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