Fagburn: On Saying Nothing

The spectacle presents itself as something enormously positive, indisputable and inaccessible. It says nothing more than “that which appears is good, that which is good appears.” The attitude which it demands in principle is passive acceptance which in fact it already obtained by its manner of appearing without reply, by its monopoly of appearance.

• Still taken from Guy Debord's 1973 film of his book, Society Of the Spectacle.

Sometimes I read something so banal I can only imagine that the person writing it must have had this mantra going round in their head on a loop;
"That which appears is good, that which is good appears. That which appears is good, that which is good appears. That which appears is good, that which is good appears. That which appears is good, that which is good appears. That which appears is good, that which is good appears. That which appears is good, that which is good appears..."
It's not just the manufacture of consent, but the feigning of dissent. 
The hell of this hegemony.
Propaganda's K-hole.

Watch Pollyanna pretending to be angry
about the things Polly's allowed to be angry about.

Hear Pangloss, oblivious to our disasters
"All is for the best in the best of all possible worlds"

"And I? May I say nothing, my lord?"