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Those who are always watching to see what happens will never act: such must be the spectator's condition.
Guy Debord, Commentaires sur la société du spectacle
Nothing of importance has ever been communicated by being gentle with a public, not even one like that of the age of Pericles; and in the frozen mirror of the screen the spectators are not looking at anything that might suggest the respectable citizens of a democracy.
Guy Debord, In girum imus nocte et consumimur igni
These poor wage earners who see themselves as property owners, these mystified ignoramuses who think they’re educated, these zombies with the delusion that their votes mean something.
Guy Debord, In girum imus nocte et consumimur igni
They are nothing but numbers on charts drawn up by idiots.
Guy Debord, In girum imus nocte et consumimur igni
Not only do these miserable spectators work, nobody else works for them, least of all the people they pay.
Guy Debord, In girum imus nocte et consumimur igni
They have received no inheritance, and they will leave none.
Guy Debord, In girum imus nocte et consumimur igni
they have wasted their time at college, bargain shopping for worn-out fragments of secondhand knowledge.
Guy Debord, In girum imus nocte et consumimur igni
The spectator does not feel at home anywhere, because the spectacle is everywhere.
Guy Debord, La société du spectacle §30
The most perti­nent revolutionary experiments in culture have sought to break the spectator's psychological identification with the hero so as to draw him into activ­ity by provoking his capacities to revolutionize his own life.
Guy Debord, Rapport sur la construction des situations
Spectators do not find what they desire; they desire what they find.
Guy Debord, Réfutation de tous les jugements