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It does not seem that the contradiction which exists between the aristocratic function of art and the democratic structure of modern society can ever be resolved.
As in biomedical science, pioneering industrial inventions have not been mothered by necessity. Rather, inventions for which there was no commercial use only later became the commercial airplanes, xerography and lasers on which modern society depends.
To me, consensus seems to be the process of abandoning all beliefs, principles, values and policies. So it is something in which no one believes and to which no one objects.
When I was a child, I was one of the kids who wore black all the time, and when the kids asked me why I wore black, I said things like, 'I'm mourning the death of modern society.' I mean, I was a riot.
Attention-deficit disorders seem to abound in modern society, and we don't know the cause.
The critical method which denies literary modernity would appear - and even, in certain respects, would be - the most modern of critical movements.
A lot of America's success is because we're an open society and haven't brought dogma or religious influence into the American political process.
The Ten Commandments have never been replaced as the moral basis upon which society rests.
The radical novelty of modern science lies precisely in the rejection of the belief... that the forces which move the stars and atoms are contingent upon the preferences of the human heart.
