I thoroughly recommend you read Debord's "Society of the Spectacle": “In societies dominated by modern conditions of production, life is presented as an immense accumulation of spectacles. Everything that was directly lived has receded into a representation… The images detached from every aspect of life merge into a common stream in which the unity of that life can no longer be recovered. Fragmented(sic) views of reality regroup themselves into a new unity as a separate pseudoworld (sic) that can only be looked at. The specialization of images of the world evolves into a world of autonomized images where even the deceivers are deceived. The spectacle is a concrete inversion of life, an autonomous movement of the nonliving… The spectacle is not a collection of images; it is a social relation between people that is mediated by images.”
This feels like it is about two steps away from squid game.
Since we don't seem to be able to get past this, or around it- how do we get through it?
Patience, that's all. It is not like anyone can actually do anything about these people at the moment.
I thoroughly recommend you read Debord's "Society of the Spectacle": “In societies dominated by modern conditions of production, life is presented as an immense accumulation of spectacles. Everything that was directly lived has receded into a representation… The images detached from every aspect of life merge into a common stream in which the unity of that life can no longer be recovered. Fragmented(sic) views of reality regroup themselves into a new unity as a separate pseudoworld (sic) that can only be looked at. The specialization of images of the world evolves into a world of autonomized images where even the deceivers are deceived. The spectacle is a concrete inversion of life, an autonomous movement of the nonliving… The spectacle is not a collection of images; it is a social relation between people that is mediated by images.”
Oh, I read that decades ago, 1981. :-) But is a very relevant quote to the topic at hand.
I wonder who in the administration just watched “The Running Man”