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" American movies and music deliver themes of freedom, innocence, and power that appeal to others - partly because America itself was put together out of a multiplicity of national traditions. "
Todd Gitlin
Freedom
Together
Power
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" Some fine day, Democrats may figure out how to get on the right side of the value divide - how to define America as a place of the common good and not a playground of the strong. "
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" The manufacture of desire isn't at the heart - if it isn't absurd to speak of a heart - of the media torrent. Chronic dissatisfaction is at the heart of the matter. "
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" I first came to think about media and politics in the late 1960s, having observed some distortions up close, but since then I wouldn't say that my personal experience has remained an important motive for my writing about media. "
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" So American culture is itself a hybrid and lends itself to use in other people's hybrids. "
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" The fancy term for what America has squandered in the past year and a half or so is legitimacy. "
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" So every day I'm mindful as I watch the Bush crowd extend their sway into policies of every imaginable variety, and over almost every square foot of earth, that the control of the American state is a matter of urgency. "
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" Some versions of patriotism come close to the tribal, which we all want to surpass, and some don't. "
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" I am concerned about how to reverse the process by which a fundamentalist right and a corporate elite were able to seize power in the United States. "
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" As I write at the end, if we step back and face the enormity of the torrent, then we have taken the first step to imagining what we might want to do about it. "
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" I am a realist as well as an idealist, and I think that it is incumbent upon those of us in opposition to try to work within what are always arduous circumstances to stretch the limits of the possible. "
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" The genius of the economic machine is in its ability to convert these indulgences into profitability. It converts desire into attention, a grip on our eyeballs and eardrums, which in turn can be marketed to advertisers. "
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" I don't think anyone in the media thinks strategically about society. "
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" The moguls are driven by their respective desires for profit - period. "
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" We may repeat the awful revolutionary history of the 20th century because of the vulnerability of social movements to demagoguery. "
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" I don't for the life of me understand how anybody could contemplate the results of the 2000 election in the US and say that electoral politics doesn't matter any more, and that Ralph Nader was right when he said there is no difference between the two parties. "
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" Today's global justice movement may be the biggest, most diverse and energetic in history. "
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" Human inertia makes the everyday environment, the furniture, as it were, appear to be a given. "
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" A century of convulsive change leaves huge demographic gouge marks. "
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" My book is focused on the power of the American state, not least because the government of the United States governs so much that the case could be made that everybody around the world ought to have a vote in determining some of its policies. "
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" It's an old anarchist dream that people can take care of their own lives. "
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" All I will say is that there are particular features of the American constitutional system that renders a third party futile - at best. "
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" The only people available to change the world are the people now living in it, with all the beliefs they bring along - however retrograde those beliefs may appear to those of us who see ourselves as enlightened. "
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" Sure, I've often been misrepresented - anyone frequently quoted has this experience. "
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