Plagiarism Is Necessary, Progress Implies It

In Societies Where Modern Conditions Of Production Prevail, All Of Life Presents Itself As An Immense Accumulation Of Spectacles. Everything That Was Directly Lived Has Moved Away Into A Representation.

In Societies Where Modern Conditions Of Productions Prevail, All Of Life Presents Itself As An Immense Accumulation Of Spectacles. Everything That Was Directly Lived Has Moved Away Into Representation. The Images Detached From Every Aspect Of Life Fuse In A Common Stream In Which The Unity Of This Life Can No Longer Be Re-established. Reality Considered Partially Unfolds, In Its Own General Unity As A Pseudo-world Apart, An Object Of Mere Contemplation . . . The Spectacle Is Not A Collection Of Images, But A Social Relation Among People, Mediated By Images.

Young People Everywhere Have Been Allowed To Choose Between Love And A Garbage Disposal Unit. Everywhere They Have Chosen The Garbage Disposal Unit.

The More Powerful The Class, The More It Claims Not To Exist, And Its Power Is Employed Above All To Enforce This Claim. It Is Modest Only On This One Point, However, Because This Officially Nonexistent Bureaucracy Simultaneously Attributes The Crowning Achievements Of History To Its Own Infallible Leadership. Though Its Existence Is Everywhere In Evidence, The Bureaucracy Must Be Invisible As A Class. As A Result, All Social Life Becomes Insane.

Art Need No Longer Be An Account Of Past Sensations. It Can Become The Direct Organization Of More Highly Evolved Sensations. It Is A Question Of Producing Ourselves, Not Things That Enslave Us.