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A good Facebook brawl or Twitter mobbing might be the political equivalent of Huxley’s Violent Passion Surrogate, delivering all the tonic effects of joining the Weathermen or the Black Panthers or Benito Mussolini’s March on Rome with none
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“So if we imagine religious decadence ending with a new paganism or an Islamic renaissance, we should also imagine it ending with a Christian revival—especially since, for all its weaknesses, Christianity remains institutionally significant, at least for now, in America and Europe on a scale no rival faith can match.”
― The Decadent Society: How We Became the Victims of Our Own Success
― The Decadent Society: How We Became the Victims of Our Own Success
“A good Facebook brawl or Twitter mobbing might be the political equivalent of Huxley’s Violent Passion Surrogate, delivering all the tonic effects of joining the Weathermen or the Black Panthers or Benito Mussolini’s March on Rome with none of the physical inconveniences. The Internet might be bringing back the dramas and tragedies of history, only as a stage production, a costumed farce.”
― The Decadent Society: How We Became the Victims of Our Own Success
― The Decadent Society: How We Became the Victims of Our Own Success
“Big Brother doesn’t have to watch everyone because everyone is always watching everybody else.”
― The Decadent Society: How We Became the Victims of Our Own Success
― The Decadent Society: How We Became the Victims of Our Own Success
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