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The domination of social life by images, performances, and mediated events that replace direct experience and authentic interaction. Drawing on Debord’s concept, the tyranny of spectacle reduces politics to public relations, protest to hashtags, and relationships to curated feeds. Spectacle disconnects people from their own lives, making them spectators of a reality that is performed for them. It breeds passivity, cynicism, and a sense that nothing is real unless it is seen by others.
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