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Guy Debord :: La society of the spectacleSo the spectacle is the domination of the economy on the social life…
The spectacle is the image of consumption of the material (the objects). It's the domination of the economy on the social life. Means that people bring importance to what they have and what they look like. In the spectacle, the real world is an image where the human behavior is hypnotic, related to the view and the image. There is no speaking, it's only about appearance. There is nothing related to a personalize aspect; it seems to be oriented to a kind of life where everybody is manipulated in any way (politic, media, appearance, consummation…)
To me the Debord's society image is really against consummation society. By bringing importance on people's possession and specially by creating that kind of minimum materialistic life style, that society and media have control on; it keeps the people working enough to keep them happy with what they believe it's good (The spectacle … what we show them). People become omnibuses by the society and don't ask more question about them life.
To work, the society of spectacle must keep his people in a dream, sleeping and be inactive in order to admire what they see. They must keep a minimum of happiness in them life in order to work… People forget what they are by wanted to be like is neighbor. More people desire things less they life.
Society separates the population to have more control on them and it's where social classes are organized. Spectacle separates people to make sure to not creating power between them. (It's oppose to the syndicat). Jules Cesart: "Il faut diviser pour régner". By division nobody except that governor have the total view of what's really happening in the society, country, company or organization… There is 2 socials class which are the proletariat, the inferior class and the superior class. Ex: just the Canada First minister have the global view of what's happening in the country, but it still so well done devise then he lost it's control with Le scandale des commendites.
The empire is only a concept (not concrete), each region is independent (this is the reality) ex: the spectacle is all unites put together as the Romain empire was.
That same division is applied to company where labor is devise in small part in a big process. Ex: make in China and set up in USA . Before the workers was making everything from A to Z. In that case, each person had a really important place in the social implication.
Ex: A shoes maker was not making 2 exactly similar pairs of shoes. Each activities or work was personalized and an entire community could be advantage by having them own specialties
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All the material selection created and promote by the spectacle of society (from television to car…) reinforce the population isolation. It's a spinning wheel between activities, works, productivity, desire, and consumption.
The spectacle is artificial. It keeps people in an illusion of happiness.
Existence and survival. The creation of new needs become the essential survival condition to help the production and the economy to grow up. In other word we need to produce things to give us jobs and money to follow what the spectacle show us to get. Still those need are often far away to be essential, there are superficial, but they become essential for the industry because they give us jobs and work. The human work is needed to serve the economy.
Class division and work = get material = power and reason of living . Essential needs are economy. More we consume more we produce and it brings, alienation
Before the proletariat worked for just survive… really basic. Today because of the economic grow up, the superior class needed more and more the cooperation of the proletariat, so they start to treat better employees.
With minimum comfort the people don't mind to be manipulated by the spectacle because whether what is it, they have every thing they need without working more.
The spectacle is the image of consumption of the material (the objects). It's the domination of the economy on the social life. Means that people bring importance to what they have and what they look like. In the spectacle, the real world is an image where the human behavior is hypnotic, related to the view and the image. There is no speaking, it's only about appearance. There is nothing related to a personalize aspect; it seems to be oriented to a kind of life where everybody is manipulated in any way (politic, media, appearance, consummation…)
To me the Debord's society image is really against consummation society. By bringing importance on people's possession and specially by creating that kind of minimum materialistic life style, that society and media have control on; it keeps the people working enough to keep them happy with what they believe it's good (The spectacle … what we show them). People become omnibuses by the society and don't ask more question about them life.
To work, the society of spectacle must keep his people in a dream, sleeping and be inactive in order to admire what they see. They must keep a minimum of happiness in them life in order to work… People forget what they are by wanted to be like is neighbor. More people desire things less they life.
Society separates the population to have more control on them and it's where social classes are organized. Spectacle separates people to make sure to not creating power between them. (It's oppose to the syndicat). Jules Cesart: "Il faut diviser pour régner". By division nobody except that governor have the total view of what's really happening in the society, country, company or organization… There is 2 socials class which are the proletariat, the inferior class and the superior class. Ex: just the Canada First minister have the global view of what's happening in the country, but it still so well done devise then he lost it's control with Le scandale des commendites.
The empire is only a concept (not concrete), each region is independent (this is the reality) ex: the spectacle is all unites put together as the Romain empire was.
That same division is applied to company where labor is devise in small part in a big process. Ex: make in China and set up in USA . Before the workers was making everything from A to Z. In that case, each person had a really important place in the social implication.
Ex: A shoes maker was not making 2 exactly similar pairs of shoes. Each activities or work was personalized and an entire community could be advantage by having them own specialties
.
All the material selection created and promote by the spectacle of society (from television to car…) reinforce the population isolation. It's a spinning wheel between activities, works, productivity, desire, and consumption.
The spectacle is artificial. It keeps people in an illusion of happiness.
Existence and survival. The creation of new needs become the essential survival condition to help the production and the economy to grow up. In other word we need to produce things to give us jobs and money to follow what the spectacle show us to get. Still those need are often far away to be essential, there are superficial, but they become essential for the industry because they give us jobs and work. The human work is needed to serve the economy.
Class division and work = get material = power and reason of living . Essential needs are economy. More we consume more we produce and it brings, alienation
Before the proletariat worked for just survive… really basic. Today because of the economic grow up, the superior class needed more and more the cooperation of the proletariat, so they start to treat better employees.
With minimum comfort the people don't mind to be manipulated by the spectacle because whether what is it, they have every thing they need without working more.
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