O Friend! I know not which way I must look  

For comfort, being, as I am, opprest,  

To think that now our life is only drest  

For show

- William Wordsworth (1802)

Everything that was directly lived has moved away into a representation.

- Guy Debord (1967)

Transparency is the new formula of legitimacy.

- Byung-Chul Han (2012)