doolhoofd [2016-10-20 20:00:16 +0000 UTC]
"How do our so-called rational and programmed societies function? What puts the populations in motion, what moves them? The progress of science, "objective" information, the increase of collective happiness, insight into the facts and causes, the punishment of those truly guilty or the quality of life? Absolutely not: no one is interested in that. What fascinates everyone is the debauchery of the signs, that reality is always and everywhere debauched by the signs. That is an interesting game, and it's played out in the media, in fashion, in advertising - more generally in the spectacle of politics, of technology, of science, in any spectacle whatsoever... As Rivarol said, "the people never truly desired a revolution, they desired only its spectacle." The drive to spectacle is more powerful than the instinct for self-preservation, it is her one must count on."
– Jean Baudrillard, Fatal Strategies (italics added)
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