‘Meanwhile, sitting in the sky boxes, running the concessions, selling hot dogs to the crowd, are the lawyers, politicians, racism-mongers, white and black, opportunists of every variety. The rest of us watch while the wrestlers sweat and thunder. We watch, thanks to the biggest casher-in of all, the huge, dish-linked, lap-topped, ad-powered, fame-fueled, deadline-tooled media luring us so far into the myths, the dream, the beastliness, the spectacle, that we hardly notice the fact that we’ve become the spectacle ourselves’

Henry Allen, ‘One Nation Under OJ’s Spell,’
Washington Post: 26 September 1994

‘The liberated man is not one who is freed in his ideal reality, his inner truth or his transparency; he is the man who changes spaces, who circulates, who changes sex, clothes and habits according to fashion, rather than morality, and who change opinions not as his conscience dictates but in response to opinion polls’

Jean Baudrillard, America: 1986 and 2010