The ever-more-crucial idea of the “Society of the Spectacle”
-- which dates back to the Rome of panem
et circenses, passing (in our time) through Guy Debord -- is now
front-and-center in much of what
we see.
E.g. this:
http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/worldviews/wp/2014/10/27/in-bizarre-new-video-islamic-state-hostage-gives-tour-of-kobane/
(I am old, and tired, and cannot comment now; but must seek my couch, and the arms of
Somnus, yea the balm of Lethe, ere I wake …)
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