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A Truly Common Culture Is Not One In Which We All Think Alike, Or In Which We All Believe That Fairness Is Next To Godliness, But One In Which Everyone Is Allowed To Be In On The Project Of Cooperatively Shaping A Common Way Of Life.

Like All The Best Radical Positions, Then, Mine Is A Thoroughly Traditionalist One.

Modern Capitalist Nations Are The Fruit Of A History Of Slavery, Genocide, Violence And Exploitation Every Bit As Abhorrent As Mao's China Or Stalin's Soviet Union.

It Is Language Which Speaks In Literature, In All Its Swarming 'polysemic' Plurality, Not The Author Himself.

Schizophrenic Language Has In This Sense An Interesting Resemblance To Poetry.