Open Arms Of The Spectacle Analysis

When see this Voltaire quote, I immediately think of an Upton Sinclair quote on a poster in Mr. Sutphins room. It said, “It is difficult to get a man to understand something, when his salary depends on him not understanding it.” These both connect back to the same idea: why would one want to see the truth if they are already benefited by not seeing it. It is this sense of comfort, even if it is potentially damaging to us, that leads us straight into the open arms of ‘the spectacle.’ The hardest part about coming to meaningful revelations is the moment when you have to give up everything that is sacred or exalted. In my own life, I have often dealt with this. When I was younger and more naive, I excitedly bought into the world of mass media and the consumerist society. …show more content…
I was fully immersed within the spectacle and I didn't even know what the spectacle was. It was not until I grew more mature and took classes like epistemology that I began to understood the complexities of that world and that the celebrity culture that I revered was nothing more than a fantastical illusion of plastic surgery and false love. It was worthless spectacle that perpetuated issues of low self-esteem and unfulfillment that almost everyone I knew bought into. We, as a society, are so entrenched in this culture that it is nearly impossible to relinquish without being