The spectacle is a materialized worldview, not media technology’s visual excess

Evidence

The spectacle cannot be understood as a mere visual excess produced by mass-media technologies. It is a worldview that has actually been materialized, a view of a world that has become objective. — Guy Debord, The Society of the Spectacle, 16

Categorization

• DEFINE: Distinguishes spectacle from mere media saturation by calling it an objectified worldview.
• DEEPTHINKING: The inversion — ideology become objective fact rather than held belief — is the load-bearing idea of the entire critique and resists paraphrase.