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The closest thing we have to the traditional ideology of the leisure class is a group of artists and intellectuals who regard their work as play and their play as work.
-David Riesman
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David Riesman
The closest thing we have to the traditional ideology of the leisure class is a group of artists and intellectuals who regard their work as play and their play as work.
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What have we got here in america that we believe we cannot live without? we have the most varied and imaginative bathrooms in the world, we have kitchens with the most gimmicks, we have houses with every possible electrical gadget to save ourselves all kinds of trouble - all so that we can have leisure. leisure, leisure, leisure! so that we don't go mad in the leisure, we have color tv. so that there will never, never, be a moment of silence, we have radio and muzak. we can't stand silence, because silence includes thinking. and if we thought, we would have to face ourselves.
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Every work of art (unless it is a psuedo-intellectualist work, a work already comprised in some ideology that it merely illustrates, as with brecht) is outside ideology, is not reducible to ideology. ideology circumscribes without penetrating it. the absence of ideology in a work does not mean an absence of ideas; on the contrary it fertilizes them.
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There should be a class on drugs. there should be a class on sex education-a real sex education class-not just pictures and diaphragms and 'un-logical' terms and things like that.....there should be a class on scams, there should be a class on religious cults, there should be a class on police brutality, there should be a class on apartheid, there should be a class on racism in america, there should be a class on why people are hungry, but there are not, there are classes on gym, physical education, let's learn volleyball.
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I reached the age of 70, because i have cultivated an association of multicultural intellectuals who are informed and alert to whatever "tricknology" that's laid on us by the powers that be. these include white ethnic intellectuals- people who know their roots- as well as native american, asian american, hispanic and black intellectuals. these are thirty, forty-year associations with some of the best minds around. minds that are ignored by the media.
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Why do i think that we, the intellectuals, are able to help? simply because we, the intellectuals, have done the most terrible harm for thousands of years. mass murder in the name of an idea, a doctrine, a theory, a religion - that is all "our" doing, "our" invention: the invention of the intellectuals. if only we would stop setting man against man - often with the best intentions - much would be gained. nobody can say that it is impossible for us to stop doing this.
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