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We Do Not Measure A Culture By Its Output Of Undisguised Trivialities But By What It Claims As Significant.

Because He Did Not Have Time To Read Every New Book In His Field, The Great Polish Anthropologist Bronislaw Malinowski Used A Simple And Efficient Method Of Deciding Which Ones Were Worth His Attention: Upon Receiving A New Book, He Immediately Checked The Index To See If His Name Was Cited, And How Often. The More "malinowski" The More Compelling The Book. No "malinowski", And He Doubted The Subject Of The Book Was Anthropology At All.

Americans No Longer Talk To Each Other, They Entertain Each Other. They Do Not Exchange Ideas, They Exchange Images. They Do Not Argue With Propositions; They Argue With Good Looks, Celebrities And Comercials.

The Price Of Maintaining Membership In The Establishment Is Unquestioning Acceptance Of Authority.

Typography Fostered The Modern Idea Of Individuality, But It Destroyed The Medieval Sense Of Community And Integration.