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“under any circumstances sociability is the greatest advantage in the struggle for life.”
― Mutual Aid: A Factor of Evolution
― Mutual Aid: A Factor of Evolution
“The status of celebrity offers the promise of being showered with ‘all good things’ that capitalism has to offer. The grotesque display of celebrity lives (and deaths) is the contemporary form of the cult of personality; those ‘famous for being famous’ hold out the spectacular promise of the complete erosion of a autonomously lived life in return for an apotheosis as an image. The ideological function of celebrity (and lottery systems) is clear - like a modern ‘wheel of fortune’ the message is ‘all is luck; some are rich, some are poor, that is the way the world is...it could be you!”
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“For every subtle and complicated question, there is a perfectly simple and straightforward answer, which is wrong. —”
― Debt: The First 5,000 Years
― Debt: The First 5,000 Years
“What we will criticize 'modern' eroticism for is its lack of genuine sensuality, a sensuality which implies beauty or charm, passion or modesty, power over the object of desire, and fulfilment.”
― Critique of Everyday Life, Volume 1
― Critique of Everyday Life, Volume 1
“The so-called consumer society and the politics of corporate capitalism have created a second nature of man which ties him libidinally and aggressively to the commodity form. The need for possessing, consuming, handling and constantly renewing the gadgets, devices, instruments, engines, offered to and imposed upon the people, for using these wares even at the danger of one’s own destruction, has become a “biological” need.”
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