{"article":{"id":13712,"heading":"there are s[n]o man[y]      options to cho[L]ose        from","author":"!","created":"2001-12-20 20:27:58","modified":"2005-08-15 00:48:52","last_modified":"Mon, 15 Aug 2005 07:48:52","article":"<p>\"Our epoch, which presents its time to itself as essentially made up of many frequently recurring festivities, is actually an epoch without festival. Those moments when, under the reign of cyclical time, the community would participate in a luxurious expenditure of life, are strictly unavailable to a society where neither community nor luxury exists. Mass pseudo-festivals, with their travesty of dialogue and their parody of the gift, may incite people to excessive spending, but they produce only a disillusion -- which is invariably in turn offset by further false promises.\" <br><br> --Guy Debord, The Society of the Spectacle<\/p>\n","contact":"","link":"","address":"","phone":"","parent_id":0,"mime_type":"image\/jpeg","summary":"holiday greetings from the spirit of debord","numcomment":0,"fileurl":"\/uploads\/2001\/12\/cosanta.jpg","filesize":"11.6 kibibytes","article_url":"\/news\/2001\/12\/13712.php","image":{"original":"\/uploads\/2001\/12\/cosanta.jpg","small":"\/uploads\/2001\/12\/cosanta.jpgthumb.jpg"}},"attachments":[],"comments":[]}