Under capitalism, the creativity of most people had become diverted and stifled, and society had been divided into actors and spectators, producers and consumers.
To hell with work, to hell with boredom! Create and construct an eternal festival.
capitalism had turned all relationships transactional, and that life had been reduced to a "spectacle"
Marx's view of alienation
The worker is alienated from his product and from his fellow workers and finds himself living in an alien world: The worker does not produce himself; he produces an independent power. The success of this production, its abundance, returns to the producer as an abundance of dispossession. All the time and space of his world becomes foreign to him with the accumulation of his alienated products....
The increasing division of labor and specialization have transformed work into meaningless drudgery
Having long been treated with the utmost contempt as a producer, the worker is now lavishly courted and seduced as a consumer.
while modern technology has ended natural alienation (the struggle for survival against nature), social alienation in the form of a hierarchy of masters and slaves has continued. People are treated like passive objects, not active subjects
"Who wants a world in which the guarantee that we shall not die of starvation," Vaneigem asks, "entails the risk of dying of boredom?"
not to wait for a distant revolution but to reinvent everyday life here and now
in place of petrified life, they sought the _derive_ (with its flow of acts and encounters) and _detournement_ (rerouting events and images).
gestures of refusal were considered signs of creativity
Pseudo-needs would be replaced by real desires
the love of free play, characterized by the refusal to be led, to make sacrifices, and to perform roles
nervous and compliant
define constantly their specificity and justify their image vis-a-vis powerful foreign models
unceasingly modernises his greeds
we must today deride utopias that at other times were fruitful
I left Paris this evening with the intention of passing around 3-4 months in Cannes to recover from a certain physio-moral exhaustion to which all the experiences of the recent past have led me.