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The Jordan Harbinger Show
It was discussed as a book from the 1960s that predicted a society where spectacle and performance would become more profitable than authenticity, which was compared to the rise of influencer culture.
what g'da board the French theorist wrote a book in the 1960s and called the Society of the Spectacle in which the spectacle the performance the human performance is a more profitable kind of society...
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It was discussed as a book from the 1960s that predicted a society where spectacle and performance would become more profitable than authenticity, which was compared to the rise of influencer culture.
what g'da board the French theorist wrote a book in the 1960s and called the Society of the Spectacle in which the spectacle the performance the human performance is a more profitable kind of society than a society that is authentic in some way so we have inauthenticity and alienation being a more profitable way that society could be organized than an authentic society and that has all sorts of downstream effects let alone the fact that it's grew up children at a very deep level so when we get to your question of what is different or so apocalyptic this time I think it's pretty easy to see that a society in which it's more profitable for each person to be addicted narcissistic distracted confused about reality not knowing what's true that is not a society that can solve its problem that is not a society that can solve climate change that is not a society that can escape pandemics or agree on anything and that is incompatible with the future that we want to live in so we know already that we can't really live with these being the business models that guide the way our society works