"Whoever controls the media, the images, controls the culture."

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"When future archaeologists dig up the remains of California, they're going to find all of those gyms their scary-looking gym equipment, and they're going to assume that we were a culture obsessed with torture."

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"Every aspect of Western culture needs a new code of ethics - a rational ethics - as a precondition of rebirth."

"Learning has always been made much of, but forgetting has always been deprecated; therefore pedantry has pretty well established itself throughout the modern world at the expense of culture."

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