“Who can doubt that there is an American empire?—an ‘informal’ empire, not colonial in polity, but still richly equipped with imperial paraphernalia: troops, ships, planes, bases, proconsuls, local collaborators, all spread around the luckless planet.”
Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr., The Cycles of American History
“We live in a collective adrenaline rush, a world of endless promotional/commercial bullshit, that masks a deep systemic emptiness. The result is that children now live in an ethos of fantasy consumerism.”
Morris Berman, Dark Ages America: The Final Phase of Empire
“What you need to remember, with these guys, is that they don’t know they’re con men. They’re wildly overconfident. Omnipotence, omniscience–that’s part of the mythology… Your guy can walk in the door and promise something he personally doesn’t know how to do, and not even realize he’s bullshitting about his own capabilities. It’s a special kind of gullibility.”
William Gibson
“As everything in what used to be called creation becomes a commodity, human beings begin to look at one another, and at themselves, in a funny way, and they see price tags. There was a time when people spoke, at least occasionally, of ‘inherent worth’— if not of things, then at least of persons.”
Harvey Cox, The Market as God
“Even in a time of elephantine vanity and greed, one never has to look far to see the campfires of gentle people.”
Garrison Kellor
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