Plagiarism Is Necessary, Progress Implies

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.

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.

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.

People Who Personify The System Are Indeed Well Known For Not Being What They Seem To Be; They Have Achieved Greatness By Embracing A Level Of Reality Lower Than That Of The Most Insignificant Individual Life- And Everyone Knows It.

Quotations Are Useful In Periods Of Ignorance Or Obscurantist Beliefs.