![]() Modern society can't afford to accept the concept of 'strictly necessary' though, not after its very existence became anachronistic and even threatening to a world ruled by the market-a world that needs buyers and consumers in order to survive. As a matter of fact, it doesn't take much for a human being to survive. The list of our natural needs is indeed quite short: only a few biological functions and a couple of psychophysical drives to be satisfied when necessary, such as sex and sociality. The creation of artificial needs requires a distorted perception of inherent threshold values otherwise, Debord says, we wouldn't be the well-oiled cogs we're expected to be in the machinery of the system. ![]() Any sort of tribal, theocratic, feudal, political dimension in the history of our civilisation has indeed shaped reality according to its peculiar needs and aims, by means of a system of thought that could justify its permanence in time. ![]() The foundation of every society is the result of an arbitrary act: one of its parts takes control over the rest and (re)makes the world in its own image. ![]()
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