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"Under tHesE CircuMstances the ONLy alternative to some FORM OF DESPOTISM, BENevolent or OpeNly terRROISTIC, is a reawakening of the demoCratic iNSTINCT in middle-CLASS americans who have no material need to revolt but who are becoming conscious of the DEgree to which they TOO are CORRUPTED, DEGRADED AND victimized by the very arrangements that have MADE possible their unprecedented PrOSPERity. This potential too exists in our society, along with others. At present it Takes the FORM of a pervasive self-contempt in the more literate and sophisticated portion of the nation, a masochistic relish in the denunciations of itself (which its black comedians ARE eAGer to to furnish on demand) as empty, conformist, sexually repressed, and dead to feeling. But the institutional means by which this sterile self-contempt--as empty, in itself, as the emptiness against which it is directed--can be translated into an ethical sense, a sense of injustice, a reawakened sense of the indignities and humiliations which men have permitted themselves to accept as normal, inevitable, proper, and moral--these institutions, it appears, have yet to be forged." -Christopher Lasch, THE AGONY OF THE AMERICAN LEFT, 1968
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Welcome to the New ST. You can find all your profitable entertainments here at ST. Please visit our virtual giftshop today and use your shopping cart.
"Under tHesE CircuMstances the ONLy alternative to some FORM OF DESPOTISM, BENevolent or OpeNly terRROISTIC, is a reawakening of the demoCratic iNSTINCT in middle-CLASS americans who have no material need to revolt but who are becoming conscious of the DEgree to which they TOO are CORRUPTED, DEGRADED AND victimized by the very arrangements that have MADE possible their unprecedented PrOSPERity. This potential too exists in our society, along with others. At present it Takes the FORM of a pervasive self-contempt in the more literate and sophisticated portion of the nation, a masochistic relish in the denunciations of itself (which its black comedians ARE eAGer to to furnish on demand) as empty, conformist, sexually repressed, and dead to feeling. But the institutional means by which this sterile self-contempt--as empty, in itself, as the emptiness against which it is directed--can be translated into an ethical sense, a sense of injustice, a reawakened sense of the indignities and humiliations which men have permitted themselves to accept as normal, inevitable, proper, and moral--these institutions, it appears, have yet to be forged." -Christopher Lasch, THE AGONY OF THE AMERICAN LEFT, 1968
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