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My deepest impulses are optimistic; an attitude that seems to me as spiritually necessary and proper as it is intellectually suspect.
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What turns me on is erotica; what turns you on is pornographic.
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For democrats, it's as crucial to defend secular culture as to preserve secular law. And in fact the two projects are inseparable:…
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If believers feel that their faith is trivialized and their true selves compromised by a society that will not give religious imperatives…
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Mass consumption, advertising, and mass art are a corporate Frankenstein; while they reinforce the system, they also undermine it.
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Music that boldly and aggressively laid out what the singer wanted, loved, hated — as good rock ’n’ roll did — challenged…
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Often men's impulses to coerce and degrade women seem to express not a confident assumption of dominance but a desire to retaliate…
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My education was dominated by modernist thinkers and artists who taught me that the supreme imperative was courage to face the awful…
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The struggle of democratic secularism, religious tolerance, individual freedom and feminism against authoritarian patriarchal religion, culture and morality is going on all…
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As with fascism, the rise of Islamic totalitarianism has partly to do with its populist appeal to the class resentments of an…
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For the most part, Americans speak of culture and politics as if they were two separate realms.
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I believe that we are all, openly or secretly, struggling against one or another kind of nihilism.
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Today, when death and old age are increasingly concealed behind euphemisms and comforting baby talk, and life is threatened with being smothered…
— Martin Esslin
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Even the bands I dig don't have a history of attaining mass consumption.
— Evan Dando
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As mass production has to be accompanied by mass consumption, mass consumption, in turn, implies a distribution of wealth ... to provide…
— Unknown Author
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The Second Wave Society is industrial and based on mass production, mass distribution, mass consumption, mass education, mass media, mass recreation, mass…
— Alvin Toffler
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Mass consumption, advertising, and mass art are a corporate Frankenstein; while they reinforce the system, they also undermine it.
— Ellen Willis
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With production alone as the goal, industry in North America was dominated by the assembly line, standardization for mass consumption.
— Arthur Erickson
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The model of ownership, in a society organized round mass consumption, is addiction.
— Christopher Lasch
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The problem is this: in order to make money- lots of money- we don't need flawless literary masterpieces. What we need is…
— Walter Moers
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The only way to make something cheaply today is to have it mass-produced. For example, you wear the same shoes as everyone…
— Hod Lipson
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