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"So American culture is itself a hybrid and lends itself to use in other people's hybrids."
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"The people I distrust most are those who want to improve our lives but have only one course of action."
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"Today's global justice movement may be the biggest, most diverse and energetic in history."
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"Americas are, for a variety of reasons, the most adept at producing the kind of entertainment that delivers easy satisfactions."
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"A century of convulsive change leaves huge demographic gouge marks."
Change
"American movies and music deliver themes of freedom, innocence, and power that appeal to others - partly because America itself was put together out of a multiplicity of national traditions."
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"All I will say is that there are particular features of the American constitutional system that renders a third party futile - at best."
Politics
"The only people available to change the world are the people now living in it, with all the beliefs they bring along - however retrograde those beliefs may appear to those of us who see ourselves as enlightened."
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"The moguls are driven by their respective desires for profit - period."
Sports
"The genius of the economic machine is in its ability to convert these indulgences into profitability. It converts desire into attention, a grip on our eyeballs and eardrums, which in turn can be marketed to advertisers."
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"The manufacture of desire isn't at the heart - if it isn't absurd to speak of a heart - of the media torrent. Chronic dissatisfaction is at the heart of the matter."
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"It's an old anarchist dream that people can take care of their own lives."
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