Why yes, there is a vast world devouring monster with its tendrils encircling all of us, and it's plainly visible once you notice it, and it's everywhere. But you come off as insane when you try to tell other people about it.

Is SCP-3125 an allegory for capitalism? Shit.

  • happybadger [he/him]
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    With Society of the Spectacle, it's so abstractly written that I like to parse it with supplemental podcasts.

    https://hyperallergic.com/313435/an-illustrated-guide-to-guy-debords-the-society-of-the-spectacle/ This guide has the main ideas illustrated.

    https://partiallyexaminedlife.com/2017/08/14/ep170-1-debord/ This philosophy podcast did a two-parter

    https://www.stitcher.com/show/dissecting-philosophy-with-dr-mcdonald This one did a five-parter (episodes 110-115)

    edit: Also, A Sick Planet is a good longform examination of spectacle: https://cominsitu.files.wordpress.com/2019/09/a-sick-planet-guy-debord.pdf