#spectacle

In societies where modern conditions of production prevail, all of life presents itself as an immense accumulation of spectacles. Everything that was directly lived has moved away into a representation. ↗

— Guy Debord

#conditions #directly #everything #immense #into

I was a WASP kid going to a high school that was 99 percent Jewish and I wanted attention and I wanted to make a spectacle of myself because I couldn't stand to be ignored. ↗

— James Ellroy

#because #going #high #high school #i

You know, the reward for 'Captain America' is amazing. It's always fun to see a giant spectacle film and see the fun stuff - the special effects. ↗

— Chris Evans

#amazing #america #captain #captain america #effects

My belief, for what it is worth, is that city dwellers cannot understand the world. Insulated from reality by complex and expert systems of provision and police, baffled by fashion and spectacle, city dwellers can distinguish neither the sources of their existence nor the consequences. ↗

— James Buchan

#belief #cannot #city #complex #consequences

The spectacle of a great, solvent government paying a fictitious price for gold it did not want and did not need and doing it on purpose to debase the value of its own paper currency was one to astonish the world. ↗

— Garet Garrett

#currency #debase #did #doing #fictitious

If your job is to leaven ordinary lives with elevating spectacle, be elevating or be gone. ↗

— George Will

#gone #job #lives #ordinary #spectacle

An ambassador is not simply an agent; he is also a spectacle. ↗

— Walter Bagehot

#also #ambassador #simply #spectacle

Each culture has its own form of staged combat, evolved from its particular method of street fighting and cleaned up for presentation as a spectacle, e.g. savate, Cornish wrestling, karate, kung-fu. ↗

— David Mamet

#combat #culture #each #evolved #fighting

Come, come, my conservative friend, wipe the dew off your spectacles, and see that the world is moving. ↗

— Elizabeth Cady Stanton

#conservative #dew #friend #moving #off

It's impossible not to be taken in by the spectacle of oneself, which is the biggest sin of the culture right now. ↗

— Michael Tolkin

#culture #impossible #now #oneself #right