"Every given commodity fights for itself, cannot acknowledge the others, and attempts to impose itself everywhere as if it were the only one. The spectacle, then is the epic poem of this struggle, an epic which cannot be concluded by the fall of any Troy. The spectacle does not sign the praises of men and their weapons, but of commodities and their passions. In this blind struggle every commodity, pursuing its passion, unconsciously realizes something higher: the becoming-world of the commodity, which is also the becoming-commodity of the world. Thus, by means of a ruse of commodity logic, what's specific in the commodity wears itself out in the fight while the commodity-form moves toward its absolute realization."
Debord, Guy. Society of the Spectacle, Black & Red, 1983. #66
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I feel like our passion is mode rather than an object. We need commodity as a target of our obsession with new things. Maybe the commodity and the self affect reciprocally. As we move from one commodity to the next, our passion projected towards this commidty changes what we strive for - as we become in tune with each other within our culture.
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