Broken observer observing the utterly shattered

27th August 2011

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To this end the reserve army of the unemployed is enlisted into the tertiary or “service” sector, reinforcing the troops responsible for distributing and glorifying the latest commodities; and in this it is serving a real need, in the sense that increasingly extensive campaigns are necessary to convince people to buy increasingly unnecessary commodities.
— Guy Debord, The Society of the Spectacle (1967)

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