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William Anders, um astronauta, comentou uma vez o que via do espaço. Disse na altura o senhor, que não via fronteiras, e aquelas cores que os países possuiam no globo de sala de aula, essas também estavam em falta.

Assim, e em contexto, aqui ficam alguns trechos para ilustrar uma posição.

Zygmunt Bauman, em Liquid Modernity, escreve:

"The meeting of strangers is an event without a past. More often than not, it is also an event without a future ... We may say that 'community' is a short-cut to togetherness, and to a kind of togetherness which hardly ever occurs in 'real life': a togetherness of sheer likeness, of the 'us who are all the same' kind; a togetherness which for this reason is unproblematic, calling for no effort and no vigilance, truly pre-ordained..."

Em Imagined Communities, Benedict Anderson escreve:

"Communities are to be distinguished not by their falsity/genuineness, but by the style in which they are imagined."

Em Sociology Beyond Societies, John Urry escreve:

"Images play a central role because many sources of cognitive information are not trusted ... [and] 'seeing is believing,' especially when those images are repeated time and time again ... It also seems that images are important because, according to Ramonet: 'the objective is not to make us understand a situation, but to make us take part in an event'"

Guy Debord, na Sociedade do Espectáculo, escreve:

"In societies dominated by modern conditions of production, life is presented as an immense accumulation of spectacles. Everything that was directly lived has receded into a representation. The images detached from every aspect of life merge into a common stream in which the unity of that life can no longer be recovered. Fragmented views of reality regroup themselves into a new unity as a separate pseudoworld that can only be looked at. The specialization of images of the world evolves into a world of autonomized images where even the deceivers are deceived. The spectacle is a concrete inversion of life, an autonomous movement of the nonliving. The spectacle presents itself simultaneously as society itself, as a part of society, and as a means of unification. As a part of society, it is the focal point of all vision and all consciousness. But due to the very fact that this sector is separate, it is in reality the domain of delusion and false consciousness: the unification it achieves is nothing but an official language of universal separation."