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47 | Guy Debord and the Society of the Spectacle

What's Left of Philosophy

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The Pseudo Need

In some places we're like, you knowi it's about conspicuous consumption. And this is all just a means of capital accumulation, separating the workers from what they actually require and also from the living substance of their own labor. It seems like the pseudo need is also the the generation of an image that actually hides a growing precariety. So you're buying these hip clothes, but you're servicing it with debth. They're pulling out another cried a coper. When they go outside, he we're great. We're hi. R inside, lit are wer. Why so many horror movies take place in suburbs? Because suburbs seem like the place of social tranquillity

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