We live in the society of the spectacle as predicted by Guy Debord, in which he argues that authentic social life has been replaced with its representation. Re

We live in the society of the spectacle as predicted by Guy Debord, in which he argues that authentic social life has been replaced with its representation. Relevant quotes: "All that once was directly lived has become mere representation." “The spectacle is a social relation between people that is mediated by an accumulation of images that serve to alienate us from a genuinely lived life. The image is thus an historical mutation of the form of commodity fetishism.” “... just as early industrial capitalism moved the focus of existence from being to having [things], post-industrial culture has moved that focus from having to appearing.”