The Work Of Art Is A Scream

We Do Not Need To Minimize The Poverty Of The Ghetto Or The Suffering Inflicted By Whites On Blacks In Order To See That The Increasingly Dangerous And Unpredictable Conditions Of Middle-class Life Have Given Rise To Similar Strategies For Survival. Indeed The Attraction Of Black Culture For Disaffected Whites Suggests That Black Culture Now Speaks To A General Condition.

The Left No Longer Stands For Common Sense, As It Did In The Days Of Tom Paine.

A Society That Has Made 'nostalgia' A Marketable Commodity On The Cultural Exchange Quickly Repudiates The Suggestion That Life In The Past Was In Any Important Way Better Than Life Today.

The Proper Role Of Humanists Is Not To Bring 'human Values' To The Attention Of Technicians Otherwise Engaged In A Purely Instrumental Approach To Their Calling, But To Demand The Restoration Of The Practical Or Moral Element In Callings That Have Degenerated Into Techniques.

Propaganda In The Ordinary Sense Of The Term Plays A Less Important Part In A Consumer Society, Where People Greet All Official Pronouncements With Suspicion.