Empire Socialism Part 4

The Spectacle

Way back in the 1960’s the French activist Guy Debord talked about The society of the spectacle, which is a simple idea, but the book is quite hard to follow. Capitalism needs us in order to exist, but it also needs us to go along with its bullshit. Given that it’s one of the most destructive things human beings have invented, it has to really break our ability to see it for what it is. It needs us not to question political systems that are incapable of delivering the things we need, industrial systems that are destroying our ecological base, endless profiteering…