The republic is a primitive religion.

Its fetish is the King (Leader).

Its deity is the Commodity (Money).

Its mysticism is the Spectacle of electronic broadcast communication (Media).

Practising ascetic contemplation of the Spectacle, its ideal forms, talismans and
incantations, brings devotees (or citizens) to a pseudo-mystical union with this deified
Commodity and its daemon (intermediary): the fetish King.

The republic is law and the Spectacle is the perpetually revised tradition or oral transmission
of that law.

This primitive religion has only one law.

"Choose death."

It is by this law alone that the Royal Authority of the primitive religion of the fetish King is maintained and perpetuated.

I choose life.

"I heard it from a friend
The Revolution never happened
Sigh
A little die
No more a child
Goodbye."