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“The Spectacle is the acme of ideology, for in its full flower it exposes and manifests the essence of all ideological systems: the impoverishment, enslavement and negation of real life.” –Guy Debord, Society of the Spectacle, 151.

“The Spectacle is the acme of ideology, for in its full flower it exposes and manifests the essence of all ideological systems: the impoverishment, enslavement and negation of real life.” –Guy Debord, Society of the Spectacle, 151.

“You want apparently some vivid coloring of an Arab costume, or of a flying Turk, and we have it all, for that is part of the mise-en-scene of the successful raider, and hitherto I am that. My bodyguard of fifty Arab tribesmen, picked riders from the young men of the deserts, are more splendid than a tulip garden, and we ride like lunatics and with our Bedouins pounce on unsuspecting Turks and destroy them in heaps: it is all very gory and nasty after we close grips. I love the preparation, and the journey, and loathe the physical fighting. Disguises, and prices on one’s head, and fancy exploits are all part of the pose: How to reconcile it with the Oxford pose I know not”

--Letters of T.E. Lawrence