Industrial society is fundamentally spectaclist, not incidentally so

Evidence

The society based on modern industry is not accidentally or superficially spectacular, it is fundamentally spectaclist. In the spectacle—the visual reflection of the ruling economic order—goals are nothing, development is everything. The spectacle aims at nothing other than itself. — Guy Debord, The Society of the Spectacle, 25

Categorization

• XREF: Connects to Marxist claims that competition among capitals drives ceaseless development for its own sake.