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        1. Guy Debord on the emergence of "media personalities" who shift between jobs: "a parodic end of the division of labor … [that] coincides with the generalised disappearance of all real ability." …
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        "Anyone can join the spectacle, in order publicly to adopt, or sometimes secretly practice, an entirely different activity from whatever specialism first made their name.
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      "Where 'media status' has acquired infinitely more importance than the value of anything one might actually be capable of doing, it is normal for this status to be readily transferable, for anyone, anywhere, to have the same right to the same kind of stardom.
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    "Most often these accelerated media particles pursue their own careers in the glow of statutorily guaranteed admiration." — Guy Debord, Comments on the Society of the Spectacle, § IV
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