feneon

...present conditions are precisely these: the economy cannot stop making us consume more and more, and to consume without respite is to change illusions at an accelerating pace which gradually dissolves the spaces behind the waterfall of gadgets, family cars and paperback books.

The affluent society is a society of voyeurs. To each his own kaleidoscope: a tiny movement of the fingers and the picture changes. You can't lose: two fridges, a VW, TV, a promotion, time to kill... But then the monotony of the images we consume gets the upper hand, reflecting the monotony of the action which produces them, the slow rotation of the finger and thumb that in turn rotates the kaleidoscope. There was no VW, only an ideology almost unconnected with automobiles. Flushed with Chivas Regal, whiskey of the elite, we savour a strange cocktail of alcohol and class struggle.

People who talk about revolution and class struggle without referring explicitly to everyday life, without understanding what is subversive about love and what is positive in the refusal of constraints--such people have a corpse in their mouth.

-Raoul Vaneigem, 1967