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Jamie Moodie's avatar

Europa The Last Battle is the most eye opening historical correction I have watched

Thanks for all your articles et al, I pass them all onwards far and wide.

Keep up the great work, the asleep don't know that they are asleep!

Regards Jamie

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This might be of use. Charles spells it out nicely.

"Here are some insightful excerpts from the article:

"Because spectacle replaces real life with a mere mediated representation of life that cannot be experienced directly, it provides a framework where mass deceptions and lies can consistently and convincingly appear as true.

It has recreated our society without community, and it has obstructed the ability to communicate in general. Such processes and their ramifications ultimately mean people cannot truly experience life for themselves: they have become spectators, bound to an impoverished state of unlife.

In The Society of the Spectacle, Debord explains that the economy subjugating society first presented itself as an 'obvious degradation of being into having,' where human fulfilment was no longer attained through what one was, but instead only through what one had. As society's capitulation to the economy accelerated, the decline from being into having shifted 'from having into appearing.'

With respect to knowledge, therefore, experts no longer have to be experts or have expertise, they only need to take on the appearance of expertise.""

URL here for the article from Charles.

http://charleshughsmith.blogspot.com/2023/08/the-peculiar-unreality-of-spectacle.html

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