Daily life is governed by an economic system in which the production and consumption of insults tends to balance out.
Raoul VaneigemAs poverty has been reduced in terms of mere survival, it has become more profound in terms of our way of life.
Raoul VaneigemWhere constraint breaks people, and mediation makes fools of them, the seduction of power is what makes them love their oppression. Because of it, people give up their real riches for a cause that mutilates them; for an appearance that reifies them; for roles that wrest them from authentic life; for a time whose passage defines and confines them.
Raoul VaneigemThe world of the commodity is a world upside-down, which bases itself not upon life but upon the transformation of life into work.
Raoul VaneigemPrivative appropriation and domination are thus originally imposed and felt as a positive right, but in the form of a negative universality. Valid for everyone, justified in everyone's eyes by divine or natural law, the right of privative appropriation is objectified in a general illusion, in a universal transcendence, in an essential law under which everyone individually manages to tolerate the more or less narrow limits assigned to his right to live and to the conditions of life in general.
Raoul Vaneigem