
Episode 170: Guy Debord's "Society of the Spectacle" (Part One)
The Partially Examined Life Philosophy Podcast
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Are You Going to Shun All These Things That Society Has Considered Necessary?
We were promised leisure and instead, we're still just in augmented survival mode. To shun that entirely, you have to be a certain kind of, I'm off the grid, man. We are shackled by the existence of those choices because we just get this new augmented survival layer where we're still functioning in the state of pseudo nature. And who's going to live like a monk? You can eat so much more cheaply, making things yourself,. But it's just become a social necessity for many parts of society.
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