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by disqard 1295 days ago
...but it appears to be correct, as long as you glance at it (and don't have the time and/or expertise to actually read it).

We're clearly in the phase of society where "Appearance of Having" is all that matters.

> The spectacle is the inverted image of society in which relations between commodities have supplanted relations between people, in which "passive identification with the spectacle supplants genuine activity".

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Society_of_the_Spectacle

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> We're clearly in the phase of society where "Appearance of Having" is all that matters.

This has always been the case in any society to be honest. I'm sure even Plato was writing about it back in the day.