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“This world of ours is a new world, in which the unit of knowledge, the nature of human communities, the order of society, the order of ideas, the very notions of society and culture have changed, and will not return to what they have been in the past. What is new is new, not because it has never been there before, but because it has changed in quality.”

World Humans Has Beens Ideas Past Order Culture Community Quality Progress This World Changed Return Notion New World Units Society And Culture

Book:Uncommon Sense

Source: Uncommon Sense

“You asked if I thought my fiction had changed anything in the culture and the answer is no. Sure, there's been some scandal, but people are scandalized all the time; it's a way of life for them. It doesn't mean a thing. If you ask if I want my fiction to change anything in the culture, the answer is still no. What I want is to possess my readers while they are reading my book if I can, to possess them in ways that other writers don't. Then let them return, just as they were, to a world where everybody else is working to change, persuade, tempt, and control them.”

People Ifs World Way Want Mean Stills I Can Book Culture Reading Asks Answers Fiction Changed Return Reader Scandal

Book:Conversations with Philip Roth

Source: Conversations with Philip Roth

“The tribalizing power of the new electronic media, the way in which they return to us to the unified fields of the old oral cultures, to tribal cohesion and pre-individualist patterns of thought, is little understood. Tribalism is the sense of the deep bond of family, the closed society as the norm of community.”

Way Littles Culture Community Media Fields Return Understood Patterns Norm Unified Tribalism Cohesion Electronic Media

Book:Media Research: Technology, Art and Communication

Source: Media Research: Technology, Art and Communication

“And when it is suggested that the inward feelings of power or inward monitions or losses of judgement are the germs out of which the divine machinery developed, I return that truth is just the reverse, that the presence of voices which had to be obeyed were the absolute prerequisite to the conscious stage of mind in which it is the self that is responsible and can debate within itself, can order and direct, and that the creation of such a self is the product of culture. In a sense, we have become our own gods.”

Mind Self Feelings Order Culture Voice Loss Stage Creation Divine Products Return Truth Is Conscious Direct Absolutes Responsible Debate Judgement Reverse Inward Machinery Germs Prerequisites

Author:Julian Jaynes

“The domestication (the culture) of man does not go deep--where it does go deep it at once becomes degeneration (type: the Christian). The 'savage' (or, in moral terms, the evil man) is a return to nature--and in a certain sense his recovery, his cure from 'culture'.”

Men Doe Christian Certain Culture Evil Term Moral Type Return Recovery Cures Savages Evil Man Degeneration

Book:The Will to Power

Source: The Will to Power

“Many cultures have independently developed a belief system in reincarnation that includes return of the unit of consciousness to another physical lifetime on Earth.”

Earth Culture Belief Consciousness Return Lifetime Reincarnation Units Belief Systems

Book:The Cosmic Game: Explorations of the Frontiers of Human Consciousness

Source: The Cosmic Game: Explorations of the Frontiers of Human Consciousness

“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.”

Knows Made Done Whole Culture Evil Huge Return Mad Driven Accurate Luther Scholarship Offence Psychopathic

Author:W. H. Auden