"Like Americans, people outside America want fun, want an emotional compensation for the utilitarianism and calculation that mark the rest of their lives."

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"Like Americans, people outside America want fun, want an emotional compensation for the utilitarianism and calculation that mark the rest of their lives."

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"A century of convulsive change leaves huge demographic gouge marks."

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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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"Sure, I've often been misrepresented - anyone frequently quoted has this experience."

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"Human inertia makes the everyday environment, the furniture, as it were, appear to be a given."

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