From One Plato's Cave to Another... Reflections on the Society of the Spectacle, Mediatization, and Totalitarianism
- Ariane Bilheran
- Dec 9, 2024
- 10 min read
La Licorne (The Unicorn) No. 1 by Ariane Bilheran, December 9, 2024.
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"Every sentence must be made to penetrate the minds of the masses by repetition and simplification. What is presented to them as good must shine like gold; what is presented to them as bad must be black as ebony. For the consumption of the masses, political phenomena must be colored like gingerbread men at the fair."
"That was it; either you were clever or you were honest: the two didn't go together."
Darkness at Noon, by Arthur Koestler.
Recent years have exposed us not only to mass propaganda, but also to its shamelessness: it no longer hides, it asserts itself, it flaunts itself, it claims its own status as information prostitute. Minds that have seen these crude maneuvers, for example, those of the actors we regularly find in crisis situations, have emerged from a first Plato's Cave.
But what happens to them afterwards?
This is what Ariane Bilheran invites us to reflect on...
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