A Manifesto for Faerie future
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The Ludwig Feuerbach quote at the beginning of The Society of the Spectacle by Guy Debord is:
“But certainly for the present age, which prefers the sign to the thing signified, the copy to the original, representation to reality, the appearance to the essence… truth is considered profane, and only illusion is sacred. Sacredness is in fact held to be enhanced in proportion as truth decreases and illusion increases, so that the highest degree of illusion comes to be the highest degree of sacredness.”
This quote sets the tone for Debord’s critique of how modern society increasingly values appearances and representations (the “spectacle”) over actual lived experience and material reality.
Hi, stranger. You lookin mighty fine—I think. I dunno. My eyesight’s really bad.
What I lack in sight, though, I have in vision…
[insert “walk with me here” expression]
…In recognizing the spectacular.
And you are spectacular. I know.
The moths deceive you that your fire is no more than blinding light. They channel your energy while you perish consuming delusions; so that you shine brighter without ever realising that you can burn.