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"The whole drive of western culture, the part of it which is serious, is towards an extreme objectification. It's carried to the point where the human subject is treated almost as if it's dirt in the works of a watch."
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"Hatred is something peculiar. You will always find it strongest and most violent where there is the lowest degree of culture."
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"Culture is how biology responds and makes its living conditions better."
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"We need to have a culture that says 'the less energy you can use to be comfortable, the better off you are and the better you should feel about yourself'."
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"Culture must have its ultimate aim in the metaphysical or it will cease to be culture."
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"New Orleans may well have been the most liberal Deep South city in 1954 because of its large Creole population, the influence of the French, and its cosmopolitan atmosphere."
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"The cornerstone of the political correctness that dominates campus culture is radical feminism."
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"Historically, San Franciscans have not valued street trees as much as other communities have."
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"The notion that Jews are mythic creatures is well circulating in our culture."
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"In a kind of a way there's a bit of that happening now so we have to be careful to preserve our culture."
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"There is something terribly wrong with a culture inebriated by noise and gregariousness."
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"Rock became an incredible commercial success, people just became bored with serious music, and it was forgotten."
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"When I began competing with the other artists in New York, I discovered classical North Indian music."
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"I was a student at Harvard, and that's where I learned about so-called avant-garde music. Jackson Pollock, abstract expressionism and painting were well known at this time."
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"Around 1967 I began backing away from dogmatic Leninism, not so much because I thought it was false, I just decided there was nothing utopian about it."
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"At the same time, I was listening to black music, and I began to think that the best musicians were receiving the worst treatment. The people who were doing the greatest work were despised as lower class, with no dignity accorded to what they did."
Work
"I have a picture of an ideal consciousness."
Consciousness
"I began demonstrating against serious culture. In hindsight, the actual course of events has been very humiliating for me, because no one picked up on the intellectual critique I made."
Cultural
"When I came to New York, I began to meet the people who became the most famous artists of our time. I was insecure about my own level of ability, I didn't know whether I could compete with these people and, at the same time. I was wondering what is this anyway?"
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"When somebody says that all statements are false, the obvious problem is that as an assertion it's self-defeating."
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"Basically, I viewed any work of art as an imposition of another person's taste, and saw the individual making this imposition as a kind of dictator."
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