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" As with fascism, the rise of Islamic totalitarianism has partly to do with its populist appeal to the class resentments of an economically oppressed population and to anger at political subordination and humiliation. "
Rise
Anger
Class
" By continually pushing the message that we have the right to gratification now, consumerism at its most expansive encouraged a demand for fulfillment that could not so easily be contained by products. "
Most
Right
Message
" For the most part, Americans speak of culture and politics as if they were two separate realms. "
Culture
Two
Speak
" Give people the power to shape their lives to their liking, and their souls will take care of themselves. "
Care
Power
Take Care
" I believe that body and spirit are not really separate, though it often seems that way. I believe that redemption is never impossible and always equivocal. But I guess that I just don't know. "
Believe
Impossible
Spirit
" I believe that we are all, openly or secretly, struggling against one or another kind of nihilism. "
Believe
I Believe
Kind
" I can't keep myself from playing roles. The emotionless decadent, looking for diversion from boredom, is a favorite. "
Looking
Playing
Myself
" I was a 'Big Brother' fan. I thought they were better musicians than their detractors claimed, but more to the point, technical accomplishment was not something I cared about. "
Accomplishment
Better
Brother
" Mass consumption, advertising, and mass art are a corporate Frankenstein; while they reinforce the system, they also undermine it. "
Consumption
Advertising
Art
" My deepest impulses are optimistic, an attitude that seems to me as spiritually necessary and proper as it is intellectually suspect. "
Necessary
Attitude
Deepest
" My education was dominated by modernist thinkers and artists who taught me that the supreme imperative was courage to face the awful truth, to scorn the soft-minded optimism of religious and secular romantics as well as the corrupt optimism of governments, advertisers, and mechanistic or manipulative revolutionaries. "
Me
Truth
Courage
" On one level the sixties revolt was an impressive illustration of Lenin's remark that the capitalist will sell you the rope to hang him with. "
Him
You
Will
" The artificial separation of politics and culture is nowhere more pronounced than in the discourse of foreign policy and international affairs. "
Discourse
Politics
Separation
" The struggle of democratic secularism, religious tolerance, individual freedom and feminism against authoritarian patriarchal religion, culture and morality is going on all over the world - including the Islamic world, where dissidents are regularly jailed, killed, exiled or merely intimidated and silenced. "
Religion
Struggle
Freedom
" To imagine that trauma casts out fantasy is a dangerous mistake. "
Fantasy
Dangerous
Mistake
" What cultural revolutionaries do not seem to grasp is that, far from being a grass-roots art form that has been taken over by businessmen, rock itself comes from the commercial exploitation of the blues. "
Art
Blues
Far
" You don't have to be Sigmund Freud to surmise that war has a perverse appeal for the human race, nor is the attraction limited to religious fanatics committing mass murder and suicide for the greater glory of God. "
War
Suicide
You
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