Reading Sontag (Regarding the pain of others) and a bit of Debord has made me a bit depressed.
From Sontag: ".. the vast maw of modernity has chewed up reality and spat the whole mess out as images. According to a highly influential analysis, we live in a 'society of spectacle'. Each situation has to be turned into a spectacle to be real - that is
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