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We had the experience, but missed the meaning. (T. S. Eliot) The old production-oriented culture demanded what the historian Warren Susman termed character. The new consumption-oriented culture demands what he called personality. The shift in values is a shift from a fixed morality to the artifice of presentation. The old cultural values of thrift and…
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If people stop believing in God, the problem is not that they will then believe in nothing, it’s that they’ll believe anything.(C. S. Lewis) What Huxley feared was that there would be no reason to ban a book, for there would be no one who wanted to read one. Orwell feared those who would deprive…
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What does the contemporary self want? The camera has created a culture of celebrity; the computer is creating a culture of connectivity. As the two technologies converge — broadband tipping the Web from text to image, social-networking sites spreading the mesh of interconnection ever wider — the two cultures betray a common impulse. Celebrity and connectivity are…
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Now the death of God combined with the perfection of the image has brought us to a whole new state of expectation. We are the image. We are the viewer and the viewed. There is no other distracting presence. And the image has all the Godly powers. It kills at will. Kills effortlessly. Kills beautifully.…
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După atâtea călătorii prin labirintul cărților și al argumentelor, voi face o scurtă pauză muzicală, oferindu-vă două piese ale lui Josh Wilson (albumul See You, 2011): I refuse Sometimes I I just want to close my eyes And act like everyone’s alright When I know they’re not This world needs God But it’s easier to…
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