Raoul Vaneigem — Belgian Philosopher

Raoul Vaneigem is a Belgian writer. He was born in Lessines. After studying romance philology at the Free University of Brussels from 1952 to 1956, he participated in the Situationist International from 1961 to 1970. He currently resides in Belgium and is the father of four children... (wikipedia)

Daily life is governed by an economic system in which the production and consumption of insults tends to balance out.
Who wants a world in which the guarantee that we shall not die of starvation entails the risk of dying of boredom?
In the kingdom of consumption the citizen is king. A democratic monarchy: equality before consumption, fraternity in consumption, and freedom through consumption.
We can escape the commonplace only by manipulating it, controlling it, thrusting it into our dreams or surrendering it to the free play of our subjectivity.
To be rich nowadays merely means to possess a large number of poor objects.