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To this list of the triumphs of power we should, however, add one result which has proved negative: once the running of a state involves a permanent and massive shortage of historical knowledge, that state can no longer be led strategically.
Guy Debord, Commentaires sur la société du spectacle §7

The social separation reflected in the spectacle is inseparable from the modern state—that product of the social division of labor that is both the chief instrument of class rule and the concentrated expression of all social divisions.
Guy Debord, La société du spectacle §24

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