All that once was directly lived has become mere representation. Guy Debord More Quotes by Guy Debord More Quotes From Guy Debord Young people everywhere have been allowed to choose between love and a garbage disposal unit. Everywhere they have chosen the garbage disposal unit. Guy Debord humorous love funny 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. Guy Debord accumulation representation modern In our society now, we prefer to see ourselves living than living. Guy Debord our-society With the destruction of history, contemporary events themselves retreat into a remote and fabulous realm of unverifiable stories, uncheckable statistics, unlikely explanations and untenable reasoning. Guy Debord statistics events stories Where the real world changes into simple images, the simple images become real beings and effective motivations of hypnotic behavior. Guy Debord motivation real simple Revolution is not 'showing' life to people, but making them live. A revolutionary organization must always remember that its objective is not getting its adherents to listen to convincing talks by expert leaders, but getting them to speak for themselves, in order to achieve, or at least strive toward, an equal degree of participation. Guy Debord organization order people The spectacle is not a collection of images, but a social relation among people, mediated by images. Guy Debord social relation people Quotations are useful in periods of ignorance or obscurantist beliefs. Guy Debord periods ignorance belief ... just as early industrial capitalism moved the focus of existence from being to having, post-industrial culture has moved that focus from having to appearing. Guy Debord existence focus culture In a world that has REALLY been turned on its head, truth is a moment of falsehood. Guy Debord truth-is moments world The more powerful the class, the more it claims not to exist. Guy Debord powerful claims class The spectacle is the bad dream of a modern society in chains and ultimately expresses nothing more than its wish for sleep. The spectacle is the guardian of that sleep. Guy Debord wish dream sleep Boredom is always counter-revolutionary. Always. Guy Debord boredom revolutionary 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 eliminating genuine taste 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. Guy Debord achievement powerful class Work is only justified by leisure time. To admit the emptiness of leisure time is to admit the impossibility of life. Guy Debord leisure emptiness justified Like lost children we live our unfinished adventures. Guy Debord lost adventure children He will essentially follow the language of the spectacle, for it is the only one he is familiar with. Guy Debord familiar language 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. Guy Debord organization past art The story of terrorism is written by the state and it is therefore highly instructive… compared with terrorism, everything else must be acceptable, or in any case more rational and democratic. Guy Debord terrorism states stories
