The Spectacle

Comparison, 2022

For my selfie this week, I was inspired by the Youtube video Society of the Spectacle interpretation. One of the visuals was of a woman who felt she lacked boobs or butt, and looked “flat”, so she decided to get work done by the doctor. In doing so, it could also be seen or interpreted as doctors or patients encouraging women to get work done to look a certain way. This becomes unhealthy when there are unattainable beauty standards that get put out on social media or television. Everything looks real but it is a fake reality. Women and men should learn to love themselves for who they are and not follow what influencers or phonies recommend. 

“The spectacle reduces reality to an endless supply of commodifiable fragments, while encouraging us to focus on appearances” 

 -The spectacle has distracted us from what is important, and continues to distract us in different ways. I really do not think there is a way to get around it. It could be in forms of advertisements, objects, posters, videos, photos, nearly everything. It steers us from focusing on what is truly important in life. 

 “The spectacle presents itself simultaneously as society itself, as a part of society, and as a means of unification. As a part of society, it is ostensibly the focal point of all vision and all consciousness. But due to the very fact that this sector is separate, it is in reality the domain of delusion and false consciousness: the unification it achieves is nothing but an official language of universal separation” 

-Going back to what I was mentioning about how the spectacle is a distraction, it is basically a fake reality but comes off as the “proper” reality. The spectacle essentially is a society and sometimes we might be pressured by the spectacle to be what we really are not.

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