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So American culture is itself a hybrid and lends itself to use in other people's hybrids.
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So every day I'm mindful as I watch the Bush crowd extend their sway into policies of every imaginable variety, and over almost every square foot of earth, that the control of the American state is a matter of urgency.
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Some fine day, Democrats may figure out how to get on the right side of the value divide - how to define America as a place of the common good and not a playground of the strong.
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Some versions of patriotism come close to the tribal, which we all want to surpass, and some don't.
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Sure, I've often been misrepresented - anyone frequently quoted has this experience.
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The fancy term for what America has squandered in the past year and a half or so is legitimacy.
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The genius of the economic machine is in its ability to convert these indulgences into profitability. It converts desire into attention, a grip on our eyeballs and eardrums, which in turn can be marketed to advertisers.
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The manufacture of desire isn't at the heart - if it isn't absurd to speak of a heart - of the media torrent. Chronic dissatisfaction is at the heart of the matter.
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The mobilisation which Bush has been able to perform since 11 September 2001 has to be fought - at least by Americans - in the name of a wise, honourable and democratic patriotism.
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The moguls are driven by their respective desires for profit - period.
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The only people available to change the world are the people now living in it, with all the beliefs they bring along - however retrograde those beliefs may appear to those of us who see ourselves as enlightened.
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There is a fuzzy but real distinction that can and I believe should be made, between patriotism, which is attachment to a way of life, and nationalism, which is the insistence that your way of life deserves to rule over other ways of life.
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To win power anywhere you have to convince people that you can do something for them.
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Today's global justice movement may be the biggest, most diverse and energetic in history.
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We may repeat the awful revolutionary history of the 20th century because of the vulnerability of social movements to demagoguery.
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