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• It is silly to call fat people ''gravitationally challenged'' - a self-righteous fetishism of language which is no more than a symptom…
• From the viewpoint of political power, culture is absolutely vital. So vital, indeed, that power cannot operate without it. It is culture,…
• [F]or the most part football these days is the opium of the people, not to speak of their crack cocaine. Its icon…
• Genuine equality means not treating everyone the same, but attending equally to everyone’s different needs.
• It is capitalism, not Marxism, that trades in futures.
• Being brought up in a culture is a matter of learning appropriate forms of feeling as much as particular ways of thinking.
• An enlightened trust in the sovereignty of human reason can be every bit as magical as the exploits of Merlin, and a…
• You can tell that the capitalist system is in trouble when people start talking about capitalism.
• The most common mistake students of literature make is to go straight for what the poem or novel says, setting aside the…
• Ideology... is a kind of contemporary mythology, a realm which has purged itself of ambiguity and alternative possibility.
• What persuades men and women to mistake each other from time to time for gods or vermin is ideology. One can understand…
• Yahweh is presented in the Jewish Bible as stateless and nationless. He can’t be used as a totem or fetish in that…

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