...for the present age, which prefers the sign to the thing signified, the copy to the original, representation to reality, appearance to essence... truth is considered profane, and only illusion is sacred. Sacredness is in fact held to be enhanced in proportion as truth decreases and illusion increases, so that the highest degree of illusion comes to be the highest degree of sacredness.
~Ludwig Feuerbach
preface to the second edition of The Essence of Christianity
as quoted by Guy Debord at the head of Chapter 1
The Society of the Spectacle (full text)
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