2022-11-01
40 分钟Hello everyone!
I'm Steven West.
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Today's episode is on Guy Debord and is called Action to Western Society called The Society of the Spectacle.
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So what if somebody told you that you were a member of a religion that you didn't even know that you were a member of?
And what if somebody told you that, even if you were made aware of that fact, that you were a part of this religion,
that you're probably so deeply embedded into the religion that it wouldn't even really bother you
that much that you were a part of it?
Because to you,
the illusion of this religion has become so fundamental to your everyday social life
that whatever the truth is about the world around you just matters less to you than being able to keep going with the illusion that constitutes most of your life.
Well,
this wouldn't be the first time somebody said this to someone they saw
as being hopelessly embedded within a religious worldview.
The epigraph of the book we're talking about today is a quote from the philosopher Ludwig Feuerbach from his book The Essence of Christianity.
He's talking in part here about the Christians of his time and the relationship that they have with the truth versus illusion.