Wake up, people.

"Nibby" (nibby68) 03/01/2018 at 18:25 • Filed to: None

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Also applies to any social media website.

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.

The images detached from every aspect of life fuse in a common stream in which the unity of this life can no longer be reestablished. Reality considered partially unfolds, in its own general unity, as a pseudo-world apart, an object of mere contemplation. The specialization of images of the world is completed in the world of the autonomous image, where the liar has lied to himself. The spectacle in general, as the concrete inversion of life, is the autonomous movement of the non-living.

The spectacle presents itself simultaneously as all of society, as part of society, and as instrument of unification. As a part of society it is specifically the sector which concentrates all gazing and all consciousness. Due to the very fact that this sector is separate, it is the common ground of the deceived gaze and of false consciousness, and the unification it achieves is nothing but an official language of generalized separation.

The spectacle is not a collection of images, but a social relation among people, mediated by images.

The spectacle cannot be understood as an abuse of the world of vision, as a product of the techniques of mass dissemination of images. It is, rather, a Weltanschauung which has become actual, materially translated. It is a world vision which has become objectified.

The spectacle grasped in its totality is both the result and the project of the existing mode of production. It is not a supplement to the real world, an additional decoration. It is the heart of the unrealism of the real society. In all its specific forms, as information or propaganda, as advertisement or direct entertainment consumption, the spectacle is the present model of socially dominant life. It is the omnipresent affirmation of the choice already made in production and its corollary consumption. The spectacle’s form and content are identically the total justification of the existing system’s conditions and goals. The spectacle is also the permanent presence of this justification, since it occupies the main part of the time lived outside of modern production.

Separation is itself part of the unity of the world, of the global social praxis split up into reality and image. The social practice which the autonomous spectacle confronts is also the real totality which contains the spectacle. But the split within this totality mutilates it to the point of making the spectacle appear as its goal. The language of the spectacle consists of signs of the ruling production, which at the same time are the ultimate goal of this production.

One cannot abstractly contrast the spectacle to actual social activity: such a division is itself divided. The spectacle which inverts the real is in fact produced. Lived reality is materially invaded by the contemplation of the spectacle while simultaneously absorbing the spectacular order, giving it positive cohesiveness. Objective reality is present on both sides. Every notion fixed this way has no other basis than its passage into the opposite: reality rises up within the spectacle, and the spectacle is real. This reciprocal alienation is the essence and the support of the existing society.

In a world which really is topsy-turvy, the true is a moment of the false.

vondon302 > Nibby 03/01/2018 at 18:30

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You ok Nibby?

themanwithsauce - has as many vehicles as job titles > Nibby 03/01/2018 at 18:30

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Dude....

ttyymmnn > Nibby 03/01/2018 at 18:34

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War is Peace, Freedom is Slavery, Ignorance is Strength

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jkm7680 > Nibby 03/01/2018 at 18:34

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The Society of the Spectacle? But why.

Highlander-Datsuns are Forever > Nibby 03/01/2018 at 18:38

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I think you have eaten too many tide pods.

Urambo Tauro > Nibby 03/01/2018 at 18:39

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If I take the blue hippo, does the story end and I wake up in my bed believing whatever I want to believe?

For Sweden > Nibby 03/01/2018 at 18:40

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However, the Russians have not taken over Oppo

They won’t pay the price we asked.

TheRevanchist > Nibby 03/01/2018 at 18:41

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If you are trying to say you hate Tacomas as much as I do, then I agree.

Galileo Humpkins (aka MC Clap Yo Handz) > Nibby 03/01/2018 at 18:45

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Aremmes > Nibby 03/01/2018 at 18:46

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If one examines textual situationism, one is faced with a choice: either accept the capitalist paradigm of consensus or conclude that culture serves to oppress the Other. Any number of demodernisms concerning the precapitalist paradigm of reality exist. In a sense, Marx suggests the use of the subcultural paradigm of narrative to challenge class divisions.

In Mallrats, Smith denies realism; in Clerks he affirms the capitalist paradigm of consensus. Thus, Sargeant states that we have to choose between the subcultural paradigm of narrative and Sontagist camp.

The within/without distinction prevalent in Smith’s Chasing Amy emerges again in Clerks, although in a more prestructuralist sense. In a sense, the characteristic theme of the works of Smith is the stasis, and hence the economy, of cultural class.

Many narratives concerning a mythopoetical reality may be found. Therefore, if postcapitalist dialectic theory holds, we have to choose between realism and
submodernist materialism.

Nibby > Aremmes 03/01/2018 at 18:58

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MATERIALISM WINS. FLAWLESS VICTORY.

Nibby > TheRevanchist 03/01/2018 at 18:58

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what’s wrong with tacomas

Nibby > For Sweden 03/01/2018 at 18:59

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Come to think of it, I can’t think of any Russian people on here.

For Sweden > Nibby 03/01/2018 at 19:00

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Only Tavarish

Nibby > Urambo Tauro 03/01/2018 at 19:01

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this is what happens regardless

Nibby > Highlander-Datsuns are Forever 03/01/2018 at 19:01

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tide pods are not a good source of protein

Nibby > jkm7680 03/01/2018 at 19:01

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would you prefer the solar anus?

Nibby > ttyymmnn 03/01/2018 at 19:02

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Nibby > themanwithsauce - has as many vehicles as job titles 03/01/2018 at 19:02

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that kid will wake up shredded

Nibby > vondon302 03/01/2018 at 19:02

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no. are any of us okay?

MonkeePuzzle > Nibby 03/01/2018 at 19:05

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*LIKE*

vondon302 > Nibby 03/01/2018 at 19:06

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Now that’s truth.

Nibby > For Sweden 03/01/2018 at 19:09

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do we really know any truth about him

Nibby > MonkeePuzzle 03/01/2018 at 19:10

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*VALIDATION*

Nibby > vondon302 03/01/2018 at 19:10

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but if you ever need something let me know

TheRevanchist > Nibby 03/01/2018 at 19:22

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I see the brainwashing has already got to you.

Nibby > TheRevanchist 03/01/2018 at 19:23

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nah, it has gotten to YOU. if it hasn’t, you wouldn’t have avoided the question

TheRevanchist > Nibby 03/01/2018 at 19:32

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Touche!

S65 > Nibby 03/01/2018 at 20:06

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Nibby > S65 03/01/2018 at 20:28

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Shoop > Nibby 03/01/2018 at 20:40

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S65 > Nibby 03/01/2018 at 20:52

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Nibby > Shoop 03/01/2018 at 21:18

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your loss

HFV has no HFV. But somehow has 2 motorcycles > themanwithsauce - has as many vehicles as job titles 03/01/2018 at 21:30

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This is an amazing image I’m going to save it for a special occasion when my wife is stressing her self to death

Wheelerguy > Nibby 03/01/2018 at 21:41

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Reddit is useful for just one thing: car and motorcycle racing news, as well as discussion. Nothing more. Twitter is a close second. YouTube has races streamed live. That’s all there really is to life.

Steve McQueen is right.

Nibby > Wheelerguy 03/01/2018 at 22:19

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eh i get a lot of hockey + football news from reddit

Wheelerguy > Nibby 03/01/2018 at 22:38

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The magic of self-curation.

MonkeePuzzle > Nibby 03/02/2018 at 01:05

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*starred*