"We also have a cultural phenomenon: the emergence of a global culture, or of cultural globalization."

Cultural, Culture, Globalization

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"We also have a cultural phenomenon: the emergence of a global culture, or of cultural globalization."

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"Our culture runs on coffee and gasoline, the first often tasting like the second."

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

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"What becomes fascinating is the way the culture industry doesn't deny it and doesn't try to mitigate it, but tries to sell its products as a way of liberating oneself."

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"They can do without architecture who have no olives nor wines in the cellar."

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"Americans have a penchant for the future and tend to disregard the past."

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"The culture industry not so much adapts to the reactions of its customers as it counterfeits them."

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"One can't understand the Christian Right and similar movements unless one sees them as reactive - they're reacting to what they call secular humanism."

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"If the cultural elite has its way, the U.S. will be much more like Europe."

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"If you say simply that pressures toward democracy are created by the market, I would say yes."

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"In a market economy, however, the individual has some possibility of escaping from the power of the state."

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"The negative side to globalization is that it wipes out entire economic systems and in doing so wipes out the accompanying culture."

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"It has been true in Western societies and it seems to be true elsewhere that you do not find democratic systems apart from capitalism, or apart from a market economy, if you prefer that term."

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"Some people seem to gravitate from one fundamentalism to another, from some kind of secular fundamentalism into a religious fundamentalism or the other way around, which is not very helpful."

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"The basic fault lines today are not between people with different beliefs but between people who hold these beliefs with an element of uncertainty and people who hold these beliefs with a pretense of certitude."

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"But we don't have an example of a democratic society existing in a socialist economy - which is the only real alternative to capitalism in the modern world."

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