Become Less Interesting With Age

Become Less Real With Age

Create Surface

Have Short Memories

Tempt

spectacle

is for suckers --- Weak eyes are precisely the fondest of glittering objects.

Weak eyes are precisely the fondest of glittering objects.

is that whose primary motive is to abolish all motives and all consequences: what matters is not what it thinks but what it sees.

Of course, there exists a false wrestling, in which the participants unnecessarily go to great lengths to make a show of a fair fight; this is of no interest. True wrestling, wrongly called amateur wrestling, is performed in second-rate halls, where the public spontaneously attunes itself to the spectacular nature of the contest, like the audience at a suburban cinema. Then these same people wax indignant because wrestling is a stage-managed sport (which ought, by the way, to mitigate its ignominy). The public is completely uninterested in knowing whether the contest is rigged or not, and rightly so; it abandons itself to the primary virtue of the spectacle, which is to abolish all motives and all consequences: what matters is not what it thinks but what it sees.

spectacle, n.All

spectacle