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"The sick man must follow his illness to the place where it is treated. He is set aside in one of the technical and secret zones (hospitals, prisons, refuse dumps) which relieve the living of everything that might hinder the chain of production and consumption, and which repair and select what can be sent back up to the surface of progress."

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"The only freedom supposed to be left to the masses is that of grazing on the ration of simulacra the system distributes to each individual."

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"The media transforms the great silence of things into its opposite. Formerly constituting a secret, the real now talks constantly. News reports, information, statistics, and surveys are everywhere."

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"Political organizations have slowly substituted themselves for the Churches as the places for believing practices. Politics has once again become religious."

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"One is a socialist because one used to be one, no longer going to demonstrations, attending meetings, sending in one's dues, in short, without paying."

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"As a first approximation, I define belief not as the object of believing (a dogma, a program, etc.) but as the subject's investment in a proposition, the act of saying it and considering it as true."

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"Along with the lazy man... the dying man is the immoral man: the former, a subject that does not work; the latter, an object that no longer even makes itself available to be worked on by others."

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