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"The reporting of news has to be understood as propaganda for commodities, and events by images."
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"The second advantage claimed for naturalism is that it is equivalent to rationality, because it assumes a model of reality in which all events are in principle accessible to scientific investigation."
"To say it another way, thinking, however abstract, originates in an embodied subjectivity, at once overdetermined and permeable to contingent events."
"The constant flux and caprice of mental events do not admit of the establishment of stable experimental conditions."
"By a museum, I assume you mean an institution dedicated to the events of Sept. 11 and the aftermath. If that is done with sensitivity, I think it would be most appropriate."
"News events are like Texas weather. If you don't like it, wait a minute."
"I believe, however, that impending events will call us and we must respond but where, with whom, and how?"
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"Ostensibly rigorous and realistic, contemporary conservatism is an ideology of denial. Its symbol is a smile button."
"Relentless improvement of the product and upgrading of consumer tastes are the heart of mass merchandising."
"Traditionalists will have to master techniques of sustained activism formerly monopolized by the left."
"The attempt to redefine the family as a purely voluntary arrangement grows out of the modern delusion that people can keep all their options open all the time."
"The left sees nothing but bigotry and superstition in the popular defense of the family or in popular attitudes regarding abortion, crime, busing, and the school curriculum."
"Ideologies, however appealing, cannot shape the whole structure of perceptions and conduct unless they are embedded in daily experiences that confirm them."
"Conservatives sense a link between television and drugs, but they do not grasp the nature of this connection."
"Information, usually seen as the precondition of debate, is better understood as its by-product."
"A society that has made "nostalgia" a marketable commodity on the cultural exchange quickly repudiates the suggestion that life in the past was in any important way better than life today."
"The intellectual debility of contemporary conservatism is indicated by its silence on all important matters."
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