Date: Fri, 31 Dec 1999 23:04:11 -0800 (PST)
Subject: ... and then... dreams...


13) An elite diligently elaborating its own self-protecting etiquette...  
14) ...an imprisonment of the imagination by heightened
self-consciousness...  15) ...each major change in structure is either
preceded or rapidly followed by some revolution in language...  16) The
greatest good is a free-floating, completed act, unattached to the needs
of the public weal. And the greatest act is to kill or rob someone or,
failing that, to rob public institutions. This devotion to self-interest
defines the modern celebrity...  17) One practical effect of a popular
mythology dominated by stars is that civilization finds it increasingly
difficult to express and maintain any prolonged moral judgment. Only
short-lived moral impulses seem possible...  18) This is an age of great
conformity. The citizens are so completely locked inside their boxes of
expertise that they are effectively excluded from open public debate. We
have disguised this truth by redefining individualism as an agreeable
devotion to style and personal emotions. We project ourselves, as if in a
romantic dream, against a backdrop of martyred existential outsiders..  
19) ...the impulse to restore one's private meaning by acts of violence...  
20) We are creating private dreams which compensate for the fracturing of
the individual and the castration of his or her power in public life..



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