"Culture is more and more consciously becoming a project carried out in the domain of language by, for instance, propaganda both governmental and commercial."
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"One has attained a very fortunate incarnation, I think, to be in a culture, in a place, in a time when psychedelic knowledge is available."
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"Because the planetary culture is becoming ever more closely knitted together all its parts are becoming co-dependent."
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"It [culture] invites people to diminish themselves, and dehumanize themselves by behaving like machines, meme processors of memes passed down from Madison Avenue, and Hollywood, and what have you."
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"Ideologies are cultural memes. They are the most confining of the cultural memes. That's where culture gets real ugly. It is when you rub up against its ideologies."
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"Culture is another dimension."
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"I'm proposing on one level that hallucinogens be thought of as almost as social pheromones that regulate the rate at which language develops, and therefore regulate human culture generally."
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"I think transcending our cultures is going to be extraordinarily necessary for our survival. I don't think we can carry our cultures through the keyhole of the stretch of the next millennium"
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"I think what electronic culture permits is incredible diversity, and what the print-created world demanded and created was tremendous suppression of diversity."
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"Culture is the greatest barrier to your enlightenment, your education, and your decency."
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"Pleasure is very seldom found where it is sought. Our brightest blazes of gladness are commonly kindled by unexpected sparks. The flowers which scatter their odours from time to time in the paths of life, grow up without culture from seeds scattered by chance."
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"Storytelling is the greatest activity of any culture. Storytelling is how you build a family, how you pass along identity."
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"I don’t actually take much stock in the collapsing culture bit. I’m beginning to see it instead as the conduct of life without input from your soul."
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"Tobacco is a culture productive of infinite wretchedness."
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"We live in a material world. I'm not saying that beautiful things don't enhance our lives. But, in our culture, we're never happy."
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"Fashion is very quick. It's very disposable. It's immediately - it tells you exactly where we are in our culture, especially women's fashion."
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"A beautiful woman in our culture, and I would like to say, you know, this was different in 1962, but it still exists today - I know a lot of these women -treats different in a different way; meaning that if you're a beautiful woman, you're incredibly powerful within our culture. The world operates differently for you. Then, at a moment in time, and it has nothing to do with you, it's like the carpet is just ripped out from under you, and the way that you've operated in the world no longer works."
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"When a culture is being dumbed down as effectively as ours is, its narrative arts (literature, film, theatre) seem to vacillate between the brutal and the bland, sometimes in the same work."
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"I think this whole division between the genres has more to do with marketing than anything else. It's terrible for the culture of music."
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"It's terrible for the culture of music. Like anything that is purely economic, it ignores the most important component."
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