This goes with that...
Reg
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"If American capitalism continues to exalt mercenary and dishonest men the economy will degenerate into the manufacture of drugs and ways of life that would make reflection - any sort of thoughtfulness or emotional depth - impossible. The media has unleashed an assault of advertising for tobacco, alcohol, and absurd motor cars that promise - quite literally promise - to enable you to forget the squalor, spiritual poverty and monotony of selfishness. Never, in the history of civilization, has one seen a great nation so singlemindedly bent on drugging itself." -John Cheever in the 1960s
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'The only way to avoid getting crushed by absurdity, is to humbly include the absurd in our calculations.'
'The only way to avoid getting crushed by absurdity, is to humbly include the absurd in our calculations.'
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"If American capitalism continues to exalt mercenary and dishonest men the economy will degenerate into the manufacture of drugs and ways of life that would make reflection - any sort of thoughtfulness or emotional depth - impossible. The media has unleashed an assault of advertising for tobacco, alcohol, and absurd motor cars that promise - quite literally promise - to enable you to forget the squalor, spiritual poverty and monotony of selfishness. Never, in the history of civilization, has one seen a great nation so singlemindedly bent on drugging itself." -John Cheever in the 1960s
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'The only way to avoid getting crushed by absurdity, is to humbly include the absurd in our calculations.'
'The only way to avoid getting crushed by absurdity, is to humbly include the absurd in our calculations.'
