None of the activity stolen by work can be regained by submitting to what work has produced. - The Society of The Spectacle

The spectacle is capital accumulated to the point where it becomes image.

Behind the masks of total choice, different forms of the same alienation confront each other.

All that once was directly lived has become mere representation.

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.

Plagiarism is necessary, progress implies it

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.