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Pill Pod 109 - SOCIETY OF THE SPECTACLE

PlasticPills - Philosophy & Critical Theory Podcast

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The Black Pill Doomer

Merlepottie: The spectacle inherits the weakness of the Western philosophical project. If you're told every day what your needs are, you probably don't have the psychic resources to defend against that. I think my sort of black pill doomer is that like people want to be told what to do. He says we now have appearances replacing reality. Baudrillard celebrates it in his weird way. MerlePottie: To have knowledge as a form of sight, sight is our project. And this is the end of the project.

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