Despite the alienation of everyday life, the possibilities for passion and games are quite real, and it seems to me that the SI would commit a clumsy misreading by letting it be understood that life is totally reified outside of situationist activity (which would be a mystical rescue by the concept—witness the people who approach us and have this impression). On the contrary, it seems to me that this open field [champ libre] is more often than not outside of our collective activity, which implies a certain fatigue. This appears even more obvious to me when we consider the personal theoretical work that participation in the situationist project can lead some people to undertake. Gianfranco Sanguinetti and Guy Debord, La véritable scission dans l'Internationale
Everywhere the respect for alienation has been lost. Young people, workers, colored people, homosexuals, women and children, take it into their heads to want everything that was forbidden them; at the same time as they refuse the major part of the miserable results that the old organization of class society permitted them to obtain and to bear. Gianfranco Sanguinetti and Guy Debord, La véritable scission dans l'Internationale
The spectacle’s social function is the concrete manufacture of alienation. Guy Debord, La société du spectacle §32
As capitalism’s ever-intensifying imposition of alienation at all levels makes it increasingly hard for workers to recognize and name their own impoverishment, putting them in the position of having to reject that impoverishment in its totality or not at all, revolutionary organization has had to learn that it can no longer combat alienation by means of alienated forms of struggle. Guy Debord, La société du spectacle §122