Could it not be that just at the moment masculinity has brought us to the brink of nuclear destruction or ecological suicide, wome...n are beginning to rise in response to the Mother's call to save her planet and create instead the next stage of evolution? Can our revolution mean anything else than the reversion of social and economic control to Her representatives among Womankind, and the resumption of Her worship on the face of the Earth? Do we dare demand less?LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The bastard form of mass culture is humiliated repetition ... always new books, new programs, new films, news items, but always th...e same meaning.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
It is useless to contend with the irresistible power of Time, which goes on continually creating by a process of constant destruct...ion.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The dangers of mass culture are much easier to define than the ideals. The foremost one, which may negate all the ideals, is an ov...erpowering narcotic effect, relaxing the tired mind and tranquilizing the anxious. Genuine art is demanding and difficult, often unpleasant, nagging at the mind and stretching the nerves taut. So much of mass culture envelops the audience in a warm bath, making no demands except that we all glow with pleasure and comfort. It is this that may negate the range of possibility (the bath is warmer at the shallow end), keep taste static or even deteriorate it a little, muffle the few critical and ironic sounds being made. That premature cultural critic Homer knew all about this effect, at various times calling it Lotus Eaters, Calypso, Circe, and the Sirens, and he just barely got our hero through intact.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
This idea of weapons of mass extermination is utterly horrible and is something which no one with one spark of humanity can tolera...te. I will not pretend to obey a government which is organising a mass massacre of mankind.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
In their overestimation of the role of civilization, the humanists misunderstand the primary forces of the world of primitive huma...n drives with their untamable violence. With their optimistic view of the role of culture, they (the humanists) trivialize the terrifying, hardly solvable problems of mass hatred and of the great passionate psychoses of the human race.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Postmodernity is the simultaneity of the destruction of earlier values and their reconstruction. It is renovation within ruination....LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »