identifies dominant images need, less understands life desires. specta — Guy Debord, Society Spectacle

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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.

Guy Debord, The Society of the Spectacle

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