Guy Debord foresaw the craving to stage events solely to be seen.

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“Whoever is dissatisfied with himself is continually ready for revenge, and we others will be his victims, if only by having to endure his ugly sight.” ~ Friedrich Nietzsche, The Gay Science, section 290

“Whoever is dissatisfied with himself is continually ready for revenge, and we others will be his victims, if only by having to endure his ugly sight.” ~ Friedrich Nietzsche, The Gay Science, section 290

In 1967, Guy Debord published The Society of the Spectacle and argued that social life was becoming mediated by images, or what Jean Baudrillard would later call simulacra, with appearing steadily replacing living. Neither theorist lived to see TikTok, yet both anticipated the endless craving to stage events that serve no cause beyond the hunger to be seen.

Nathan Fielder and Lance Oppenheim’s mind-boggling and jaw-dropping film You Can See Everything exposes the........

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