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French
-
Writer
December 28
, 1931 -
November 30
, 1994
Ideas improve. The meaning of words participates in the improvement. Plagiarism is necessary. Progress implies it. It embraces an author's phrase, makes use of his expressions, erases a false idea, and replaces it with the right idea.
Guy Debord
Words
Progress
Improvement
Ideas
Tourism, human circulation considered as consumption is fundamentally nothing more than the leisure of going to see what has become banal.
Guy Debord
Nothing
See
More
Tourism
Behind the masks of total choice, different forms of the same alienation confront each other.
Guy Debord
Choice
Behind
Different
Same
All that was once directly lived has become mere representation.
Guy Debord
Become
Lived
Once
Representation
Young people everywhere have been allowed to choose between love and a garbage disposal unit. Everywhere they have chosen the garbage disposal unit.
Guy Debord
Love
People
Choose
Garbage
In societies where modern conditions of production prevail, all of life presents itself as an immense accumulation of spectacles. Everything that was directly lived has moved away into a representation.
Guy Debord
Life
Everything
Spectacles
Away
Boredom is always counter-revolutionary. Always.
Guy Debord
Always
Boredom
There is nothing more natural than to consider everything as starting from oneself, chosen as the center of the world; one finds oneself thus capable of condemning the world without even wanting to hear its deceitful chatter.
Guy Debord
World
Nothing
Everything
Without
Quotations are useful in periods of ignorance or obscurantist beliefs.
Guy Debord
Ignorance
Useful
Beliefs
Periods
As specialists of apparent life, stars serve as superficial objects that people can identify with in order to compensate for the fragmented productive specialisations that they actually live.
Guy Debord
Life
Stars
People
Live
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