“Lacan is a tyrant who must be driven from our shores. Narrowly trained English professors who know nothing of art history or popular culture think they can just wade in with Lacan and trash everything in sight.” ThinkingKnowsArtCultureSightDrivenShoreProfessorsTyrantsTrashPopular CultureArt HistoryWadeLacan Book:Sex, Art, and American Culture: Essays Source: Sex, Art, and American Culture: Essays
“war has dug itself into economic systems, where it offers a livelihood to millions ... It has lodged in our souls as a kind of religion, a quick tonic for political malaise and a bracing antidote to the moral torpor of consumerist, market-driven cultures.” KindWarSoulPoliticalCultureMoralMillionsEconomicOffersDrivenAntidoteLivelihoodEconomic SystemsMalaise Author:Barbara Ehrenreich
“Today, as we have seen, fascism and communism are discredited, but are replaced by a paraphilic consumer culture driven by fantasy, desperately in search of distractions and escalating sensations, and a fundamentalist culture wherein the rigors of a private journey are shunned in favor of an ideology that, at the expense of the paradoxes and complexities of truth, favors one-sided resolutions, black-and-white values, and a privileging of one's own complexes as the norm for others.” TodayValuesCultureBlackWhiteFantasyJourneyComplexesDrivenFavorsIdeologyCommunismConsumersComplexityParadoxResolutionExpensesSensationsDistractionFascismBlack And WhiteReplacedNormFundamentalistRigorOne SidedConsumer CultureEscalating Author:James Hollis
“History is driven, over the long haul, by culture - by what men and women honor, cherish, and worship; by what societies deem to be true and good, and by the expressions they give to those convictions in language, literature, and the arts; by what individuals and societies are willing to stake their lives on.” MenGivingLongArtCultureLiteratureIndividualLanguageWillingExpressionHonorWorshipMen And WomenConvictionDrivenBeing TrueCherishStakesHaulLong HaulIndividuals And Society Book:The Cube and the Cathedral: Europe, America, and Politics Without God Source: The Cube and the Cathedral: Europe, America, and Politics Without God
“Accurate scholarship can unearth the whole offence from luther untill noe that has driven a culture mad. From what occured at linz what huge imago made a psychopathic god. i and the public know what all schoolchildren learn those to whom evil is done do evil in return.” KnowsMadeDoneWholeCultureEvilHugeReturnMadDrivenAccurateLutherScholarshipOffencePsychopathic Author:W. H. Auden