“Many people - lost in the trance of the Dream - think freedom is based 
upon the principles of pure, unregulated appetite, or what we experience 
daily as the duty of choice. It may come down to rather trivial options 
between this or that shirt, or the mirage of freedom may actually be a 
form of extortion: work or else. You may – of course -- freely choose that 
or else.” The passions are offered up behind glass, spoken of by nicely 
trained and pretty women, surrounded by more-or-less nicely designed 
buildings, and no one denies (publicly) that there is much to be done if 
any of those passions are to be purchased. So sensations are rendered 
static in direct service to the survival of The Social Order. One may move 
up or up or down the supporting wire like a mechanical monkey of course, 
and thus imitate the wild ride of a dimly rumored liberty, but that’s no more 
freedom than palsy is modern dance. What do the senses come in contact 
with but shadows cast by ad agencies? The consumer tastes hot love, smells 
wild abandon, hears flaming revolution, but keeps his “position” for fear of 
losing his musical chair to an unchained (and younger) hunger for control. 
These ghouls rise out of the very act of wanting. So it is best we merely 
pretend to desire, and settle for renting.”
 
—Nathan Kraal, “The Sense Throttle”
 
     "More than this, capitalism has taken over the most radical ideas and 
returned them safely to the people in the form of harmless ideologies such 
as socialism or communism until the only choice we are presented with is 
either the spectacle of domination or the spectacle of opposition. Because 
of this advance in capitalism, not only are those ideologies themselves 
redundant but also the theories and techniques of analysis from which they 
sprang.

     Can any pleasure we are allowed to taste compare with the 
indescribable joy of casting aside every form of restraint and breaking 
"every conceivable law?

--Grim, "Situationism, A Primer"

 

 

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