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The political version of this was the seemingly clearcut choice before the New Left, to either transform the Establishment from within (the Long March through the institutions envisioned by the Prague Spring reformers and Western social democrats alike), or else to instigate an actual revolution in the streets. History teaches us that both options were illusory; national social democracy could temporarily flourish in the hothouse export-platform economies of Central Europe, but a resurgent neoli
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― The World is Watching: Video as Multinational Aesthetics, 1968-1995
― The World is Watching: Video as Multinational Aesthetics, 1968-1995
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[...] In a country where values are collapsing, patriotism becomes the handmaiden to totalitarianism. The country becomes the religion. We are asked to live in a state of religious fervor: Love America! Love it because America has become a substitute for religion. But to love your country indiscriminately means that critical distinctions begin to go. And democracy depends upon these distinctions.
A good Englishman has a certain sense of the complexity of his national life. Even if he rides to
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― Why are We at War?
― Why are We at War?
