Challenge, And Not Desire, Lies At The

Philosophy Leads To Death, Sociology Leads To Suicide.

Laughter On American Television Has Taken The Place Of The Chorus In Greek Tragedy. In Other Countries, The Business Of Laughing Is Left To The Viewers. Here, Their Laughter Is Put On The Screen, Integrated Into The Show. It Is The Screen That Is Laughing And Having A Good Time. You Are Simply Left Alone With Your Consternation.

Kitschis One Of The Major Categories Of The Modern Object. Knick-knacks, Rustic Odds-and-ends, Souvenirs, Lampshades, And African Masks: The Kitsch-object Is Collectively This Whole Plethora Of "trashy," Sham Or Faked Objects, This Whole Museum Of Junk Which Proliferates Everywhere.... Kitsch Is The Equivalent To The "cliché" In Discourse.

Deep Down, The Us, With Its Space, Its Technological Refinement, Its Bluff Good Conscience, Even In Those Spaces Which It Opens Up For Simulation, Is The Only Remaining Primitive Society.

The Multiplication Of Individual Sects Should Not Fool Us: The Important Point Is That The Whole Of America Is Preoccupied With The Sect As A Moral Institution, With Its Immediate Demand For Beatification, Its Material Efficacity, Its Compulsion For Justification, And Doubtless Also With Its Madness And Frenzy.