Debord argues that the history of social life can be understood as "the decline of being into having, and having into merely appearing. — Wiki
But your quote spoke of an epistemic trauma and your own complaint is of an ontological trauma.
Shome category error shurely? — apokrisis
I'd like Debord and Marshall McLuhan to come back and see the internet's role in this world. — plaque flag
The idea, I think, is that the protagonist of this tragedy is a social construction. — plaque flag
The tragedy is a real as anything, just to be clear. But this self experiencing itself in a matrix is a repetition of my favorite religious myth, the crucifixion. The cross is a mother is a matrix. Its perpendicular lines suggest a collision of opposites. It's only ever down here on our gliding prison planet that good can exist -- always in chains, dreaming a freedom that would be death, as if life's obstacle were its knowledge of itself.I said that the tragedy is democratic and afforded to all people with deliberative, self-reflecting brains. — schopenhauer1
Yes, but not a social fiction. There's a difference. It is at the least entailed in our species, not our culture. — schopenhauer1
To me the self (poor ghost held responsible for the operation of his machine) is perhaps our oldest piece of technology. — plaque flag
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