The Society of the Spectacle by Guy Debord is simply about reality in the medias eyes. Like the previous reading “Ways of Seeing” this essay talks about what people see and from what they see is what they believe. The spectacle is not a collection of images; rather, it is a social relationship between people that is mediated by images (par.4). Assuming this is true the media needs its viewers and the viewers need the media. However, in most cases the media is not always true; they control a big part of what we see, what we hear, and eventually what we buy. The job of the media, media including news, propaganda, advertising and entertainment is to pursued the viewer. However, not everything shown through media can be true; in most cases, all the news, adds, and so on are tweaked just to get the viewers attention and in doing so creates a larger fan base which in the end benefits the media. I think that society today relies on the media to much. We base our lives around all the media and by doing so, we are not aware of all the danger.
Guy Debord does an excellent job writing this essay as it probably took a lot of thinking and realization.
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