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Episode #171 ... Guy Debord - The Society of the Spectacle

Philosophize This!

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Commodity Fetishism - What It Means to You

The exchange value of an item in the marketplace matters more to us than anything to do with its use value or how useful it is. To give a religious parallel to this, think about trans-substantiation in a Catholic mass. People exist at all different levels of religious belief and immersion. Believing in supernatural explanations for commodities is not the same as believing in god.

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