After reading the article Debord, Cybersituations, and the Interactive Spectacle, I began to look around me and realize how much the "spectacle" has invaded our everyday lives and how much most of us actually do not even realize it. It is very easy to look at a culture that is not your own and to point out what is right and what is wrong. However, I believe it is much more difficult to step back and take a look at one's own culture and to criticize it. So much of what we do, we simply do not question because it is "normal" and it is the way it is. Especially once something like the spectacle has pervaded every aspect of our lives, it is almost impossible to discern the spectacle, from the natural. Our life has become an accumulation of spectacles and we don't even realize it!
One of the points the article makes is that the idea of the spectacle as a tool of pacification that stupefies social subjects and distracts them from the most urgent tasks of real life. I believe that the only way to break free of this subtle but very real form of control, is to consciously put yourself into situations where you are acting on your own accord and creating your own situations. Get out of the city and go camping for the weekend, or stay in with your friends playing cards instead of going to the bar. Get together with musicians and jam, sing, and create your own music! humans are capable of far more than the average person realizes. Through revolutionary change, we need to recover the full range of human power.
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