The spectacle is the stage at which the commodity has succeeded in totally colonizing social life. Commodification is not only visible, we no longer see anything else; the world we see is the world of the commodity…
Society of the Spectacle
Guy Debord
(via notesonphotography)
Society of Spectacle people likely meant something else, in the 1970s, but I am constantly catching myself unable to just look at pretty buildings and pretty places any longer like I used to. I always tell myself – yes, I would love to live here, with an invariable answer – but no, I can’t afford it, with a follow up – who are all these thousands of people inhabiting these spaces who can, and what have they done that I have not.
The absurdity of this is that my living situation is still so clearly better than of so many others, but I can’t help myself.
In the 2010s, we successfully moved on from commoditizing objects to commoditizing the state of being.
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