The more he identifies with the dominant images of need, the less he understands his own life and his own desires. The spectacleโs estrangement from the acting subject is expressed by the fact that the individualโs gestures are no longer his own; they are the gestures of someone else who represents them to him.
Guy DebordWhat 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.
Guy DebordNo 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.
Guy DebordThe 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.
Guy Debord