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Guy Debord Quotes: The spectacle is the bad dream of a modern society in chains and ultimately expresses nothing more than its wish for sleep. The spectacle is the guardian of that sleep.
         

The spectacle is the bad dream of a modern society in chains and ultimately expresses nothing more than its wish for sleep. The spectacle is the guardian of that sleep.


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... just as early industrial capitalism moved the focus of existence from being to having, post-industrial culture has moved that focus from having to appearing.



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