Is the Spectacle Subjecting Living Human Beings to Its Will?

"The spectacle acts like a veneer or a paste over all of that," he says. "So it shapes our, it shapes our production productive relations in a different way." He adds: "Now if that's not becoming passive, then I don't know what is" 'I guess we could all admit at this point that like owning a cell phone is almost like a survival thing'