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i'm a fan of these introduction videos by Tom Nicholas:

Society of the Spectacle: WTF? Guy Debord, Situationism and the Spectacle Explained - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RGJr08N-auM

Donald Trump and the Society of the Spectacle - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4HAII7QWr_c

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For a second there I thought you said "Tom Nichols", who wrote multiple books on the un-seriousness of our modern society (such as The Death of Expertise), which is so fat and happy that it looks to government itself to entertain it. This ultimately leads to backsliding of democracies that we observe today.

> our modern society ... which is so fat and happy

We are talking about a society where, still, you have to struggle constantly to secure the most basic of needs. In most countries, anyway. So, ignoring the issue of mass obesity, I disagree.

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