"Nibby" (nibby68)
10/22/2014 at 22:57 • Filed to: None
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"Nibby" (nibby68)
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The more he identifies with the dominant images of need, the less he understands his own life and his own desires. The spectacle's estrangement from the acting subject is expressed by the fact that the individual's gestures are no longer his own; they are the gestures of someone else who represents them to him.
What is false creates taste, and reinforces itself by knowingly eliminating any possible reference to the authentic. And what is genuine is reconstructed as quickly as possible, to resemble the false.
-Guy Debord
My citroen won't start
> Nibby
10/22/2014 at 23:09 |
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The loss of quality that is so evident at every level of spectacular language, from the objects it glorifies to the behavior it regulates, stems from the basic nature of a production system that shuns reality. The commodity form reduces everything to quantitative equivalence. The quantitative is what it develops, and it can develop only within the quantitative
#Citroen bait up there.
sm70- why not Duesenberg?
> Nibby
10/22/2014 at 23:15 |
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It's too bad you can't own a Rolls from that era without being looked at as a massive poser, because I need that car.
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Nibby
> sm70- why not Duesenberg?
10/22/2014 at 23:27 |
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Honestly, I don't care what people think of me. I'm not buying a car based off what people think of me. It's not their life or decision, it's mine. They can criticize and comment all they want, but it's just wasted words.
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sm70- why not Duesenberg?
> Nibby
10/22/2014 at 23:50 |
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I tend to agree. I would buy this car if I could.
This is what drives me apeshit about my dad. He used to drive a Lexus, and apparently some of his clients jokingly gave him shit (many of them are small-town factory owners), so now he pretty much refuses to drive just about any foreign luxury car because he says it makes him look like a poser and it costs him clients. As far as I'm concerned, a used BMW X5 would be the perfect next car for him, and he loves them, but he keeps saying that he would feel like a self-conscious poser driving one and that it would be bad for business.
And I keep telling him that if he likes the car, he shouldn't not buy it because he is concerned over image.
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Nibby
> sm70- why not Duesenberg?
10/22/2014 at 23:56 |
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I think a lot of people between the ages of 15-40... their parents are too concerned with their image.