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  1. Cornel West _ The Cornel West Reader

    Nihilism is a natural consequence of a culture {or civilization} ruled and regulated by categories that mask manipulation, mastery and domination of peoples and nature.
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  2. Frank Herbert _ Heretics of Dune

    Liberty and Freedom are complex concepts. They go back to religious ideas of Free Will and are related to the Ruler Mystique implicit in absolute monarchs. Without absolute monarchs patterned after the Old Gods and ruling by the grace of a belief in religious indulgence, Liberty and Freedom would never have gained their present meaning. These ideals owe their very existence to past examples of oppression. And the forces that maintain such ideas will erode unless renewed by dramatic teaching or new oppressions. This is the most basic key to my life.
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  3. Joan Didion _ A Book of Common Prayer

    I am an anthropologist who lost faith in her own method, who stopped believing that observable activity defined anthropos.
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  4. Neil Postman _ The Disappearance of Childhood

    In saying no one knew about the ideas implicit in the telegraph, I am not quite accurate. Thoreau knew. Or so one may surmise. It is alleged that upon being told that through the telegraph a man in Maine could instantly send a message to a man in Texas, Thoreau asked, "But what do they have to say to each other?" In asking this question, to which no serious interest was paid, Thoreau was directing attention to the psychological and social meaning of the telegraph, and in particular to its capacity to change the character of information -- from the personal and regional to the impersonal and global.
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