Albert Camus

'Offering everything,' yet 'confirming nothing' are the words Albert Camus used to describe conflicting perspectives. A dense thicket of complication and falsity has always shrouded perspectives, a commodity exploited by the powerful institutions that govern society for individual profit and gain. Such conflicting perspectives, whether it be satirised in the form of the commercial media's journalistic integrity la Barry Levinson's film, Wag the Dog (1997), or the state's totalitarian abuse of the legal system as echoed in Franz Kafka's novel The Trial (1923) and contrasted within W.H. Auden's poem Law Like Love (1939), has led to an alarming message on the representations of perspectives especially when a profit or control-driven intermediary is involved. 
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