Morris Berman Quotes

#1. The less affluent must be able, at least in theory, to catch up with the more affluent. Hence politics remains without substance, a realm from which the crucial dimensions of life, the core values, are excluded.42 Who, then, can criticize this situation?

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#2. The nation no longer stands for the enlightenment tradition, but rather for military-political hegemony and the total commodification of life.

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#3. A world remade in the image of Walt Disney, and driven by an increasingly sophisticated communications technology, is the total breakdown of civilization.20

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#4. The real goal of a spiritual tradition should not be ascent, but openness, vulnerability, and this does not require great experiences but, on the contrary, very ordinary ones. Charisma is easy; presence, self-remembering, is terribly difficult, and where the real work lies.

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#5. An idea is something you have; an ideology is something that has you

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#6. The paradox of this arrangement was not lost on Lewis Mumford, who described suburbia as "a collective effort to live a private life." In many ways, this goes to the heart of the matter, for it is a project based on self-contradiction - the tragedy of American domestic

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#7. Love is the social equivalent of gravity.

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#8. The result is that children now live in an "ethos of fantasy consumerism." Modern American childhood, says Cross,

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#9. We live in a collective adrenaline rush, a world of endless promotional/commercial bullshit, that masks a deep systemic emptiness, the spiritual equivalent of asthma.

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#10. [I]nfinity is not part of the real world.

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#11. In 1997, the government spent $37 billion on military research and development, nearly two-thirds of what the entire world spent on the same. In

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