pull down to refresh
0 sats \ 1 reply \ @fanis 16 Mar 2023 \ on: Can someone smart please explain The Society of the Spectacle bitcoin
I bought it second-hand a few months, been planning to read it but other books kept coming before. Will prioritise and tell you what I get from the read.
When my dad came visiting and noticed it in the bookshelf he grinned a bit and had a little comment (something along the line of "meh, Debord"). Still don't know how to interpret that for sure, but still going to read the book and make up my own mind.
So far what I got from it is that most of our life is mediated through some type of technology. We do not know what it feels like to walk barefoot any more or how to use our muscles because we use shoes and cars to get around. Traditional societies gathered around an object, but the industrial revolution saw people working 'together' but they had no real connection with what they were building since they only knew how to build a part of a part, they were not even sure what the end product is. Now with mass media - our lives are mediated through television and algorthythms . Everything is fake. People worship the fake and make it holy more so than the truth. Everything has gone upside down.
reply