“

The mass media shape taste and cloud judgement. They instruct and they condition. With their saturation of images, current affairs and ‘news’ devoid of anything new, they fascinate and they nauseate. They expand communications and they threaten coherence and thought, vocabulary and verbal expression, language itself. Will they reach the extreme point where the ‘world of expression’ is exhausted, where everyone will be a spectacle for everyone else, where the event will be broadcast while it is happening? We call this extreme point the Great Pleonasm, the Supreme Tautology, the Final Identification of the real with the known, surprise annihilated by the illusion of permanent surprise — ambiguity annihilated by its own triumph. „

Henri Lefebvre | Critique of Everyday Life, Vol. 2 | 1961