Assertion: spectacle | /r/CapableOf | prevent individual
Facets:
value: in this way
type: MANNER
Source sentences:
text: Debord analyzes the use of knowledge to assuage reality: the spectacle obfuscates the past, imploding it with the future into an undifferentiated mass, a type of never-ending present; in this way the spectacle prevents individuals from realizing that the society of spectacle is only a moment in history, one that can be overturned through revolution.