Situationist International Anthology
Alienated work can only produce alienated leisure, for the idle (increasingly, in fact, merely semi-idle) elite as well as for the masses who are obtaining access to momentary leisure. No lead shielding can insulate either a fragment of time or the entire time of a fragment of society from the radioactivity diffused by alienated labor—if for no other reason than the fact that it is that labor which shapes the totality of products and of social life in its own image.