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The story of terrorism is written by the state and it is therefore highly instructive… compared with terrorism, everything else must be acceptable, or in any case more rational and democratic.

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The Sage of Toronto... spent several decades marveling at the numerous freedoms created by a global village instantly and effortlessly accessible to all. Villages, unlike towns, have always been ruled by conformism, isolation, petty surveillance, boredom and repetitive malicious gossip about the same families. Which is a precise enough description of the global spectacle's present vulgarity.

Guy Debord

Guy Debord

Guy Debord

Born: December 28, 1931

Died: November 30, 1994 (aged 62)

Bio: Guy Louis Debord was a French Marxist theorist, writer, filmmaker, member of the Letterist International, founder of a Letterist faction, and founding member of the Situationist International. He was also briefly a member of Socialisme ou Barbarie.

Known for:

The Society of the Spectacle (1967)
Comments on the Society of the Spectacle (1988)
Mémoires (1959)
A Game of War (1987)
Situationism: A Compendium

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