Monday, May 12, 2003
�When distant and unfamiliar and complex things are communicated to great masses of people, the truth suffers a considerable and often radical distortion. The complex is made over into the simple, the hypothetical into the dogmatic and the relative into the absolute.�
- Walter Lippman (1889 � 1974), American journalist: �The Public Philosophy�, 1955.
�The old invented histories and traditions and efforts to rule are giving way to newer, more elastic and relaxed theories of what is so discrepant and intense in the contemporary moment. In the west, post-modernism has seized upon the ahistorical weightlessness, consumerism, and spectacle of the new order.�
- Edward Said (b. 1935), Lebanese-born American social and literary critic: �Culture and Imperialism�, 1993.
�Sex is the mysticism of materialism and the only possible religion in a materialistic society.�
- Malcolm Muggeridge (1903 � 1990), British journalist and broadcaster: BBC1, October 21, 1965, quoted in �Muggeridge Through the Microphone�, 1967.
- Walter Lippman (1889 � 1974), American journalist: �The Public Philosophy�, 1955.
�The old invented histories and traditions and efforts to rule are giving way to newer, more elastic and relaxed theories of what is so discrepant and intense in the contemporary moment. In the west, post-modernism has seized upon the ahistorical weightlessness, consumerism, and spectacle of the new order.�
- Edward Said (b. 1935), Lebanese-born American social and literary critic: �Culture and Imperialism�, 1993.
�Sex is the mysticism of materialism and the only possible religion in a materialistic society.�
- Malcolm Muggeridge (1903 � 1990), British journalist and broadcaster: BBC1, October 21, 1965, quoted in �Muggeridge Through the Microphone�, 1967.
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