Plagiarism is necessary, progress implies it

In our society now, we prefer to see ourselves living than living.

All that once was directly lived has become mere representation.

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

Quotations are useful in periods of ignorance or obscurantist beliefs.

The advertisements during intermissions are the truest reflection of an intermission from life.

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.