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“It's impossible not to be taken in by the spectacle of oneself, which is the biggest sin of the culture right now.”

Culture Sin Taken Impossible Right Now Oneself

Author:Michael Tolkin

“Once efficiency is universally accepted as a rule, it becomes an inner compulsion and weighs like a sense of sin, simply because no one can ever be efficient enough, just as no one can ever be virtuous enough. And this new sense of sin only contributes further to the enervation of leisure, for the rich as well as the poor. The difficulty of carrying on a leisure-oriented tradition of culture in a work-oriented society is enough in itself to keep the present crisis in our culture unresolved.”

Wells Enough Culture Sin Poor Rich Tradition Difficulty Crisis Accepted Efficient Leisure Virtuous Efficiency Compulsion Carrying On

Author:Clement Greenberg

“The reinvention of American culture as purely the self catapulted Las Vegas to prominence. The city took sin and made it choice -- a sometimes ambiguous choice, but choice nonetheless. Combined with a visionary approach to experience that melded Hollywood and Americans' taste for comfort and self-deception, Las Vegas grew into the last American frontier city, as foreign at times as Prague but as quintessential as Peoria. In Las Vegas, you can choose your fantasy; in the rest of America, you don't always get to pick.”

“Some voluntary castaways there will always be, whom no fostering kindness and no parental care can preserve from self-destruction; but if any are lost for want of care and culture, there is a sin of omission in the society to which they belong.”

Ifs Want Self Care Culture Lost Sin Kindness Destruction Preserves Self Destruction Parental Omission Fostering Castaway

Book:Colloquies on Society: Easyread Comfort Edition

Source: Colloquies on Society: Easyread Comfort Edition

“Pride is one of the socially acceptable sins in some corners of the evangelical culture. Its just straight-out ego gratification - how important I am; whether my name gets on the building or on the TV program or in the magazine article.”

Important Culture Names Sin Building Tvs Pride Ego Program Corners Magazines Articles Acceptable Gratification Evangelical

Author:Richard J. Foster

“Native Americans are not and must not be props in a sort of theme park of the past, where we go to have a good time and see exotic cultures. “What we have done to the peoples who were living in North America” is, according to anthropologist Sol Tax, “our Original Sin.”

Source: Lies My Teacher Told Me: Everything Your American History Textbook Got Wrong