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When you automate an industry you modernize it; when you automate

When you automate an industry you modernize it; when you automate a life you primitivize it. – Eric Hoffer

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Faith in a holy cause is to a considerable extent a substitute for lost faith in ourselves. – Eric Hoffer

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Faith
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Capitalism is at its liberating best in a noncapitalist environment. The crypto-businessman is the true revolutionary in a Communist country. – Eric Hoffer

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Capitalism
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It is the awareness of unfulfilled desires which gives a nation the feeling that it has a mission and a destiny. – Eric Hoffer

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Discontent
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By Modernism I mean the positive rejection of the past and the blind belief in the process of change, in novelty for its own sake, in the idea that progress through time equates with cultural progress; in the cult of individuality, originality and self-expression. – Dan Cruickshank

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It is a tribute to the peculiar horror of contemporary life that it makes the worst features of earlier times — the stupefaction of the masses, the obsessed and driven lives of the bourgeoisie — seem attractive by comparison. – Christopher Lasch

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Postmodernism is among other things a sick joke at the expense of revolutionary avant-gardism. – Terry Eagleton

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Modern, Modernism

Post-modernism is modernism with the optimism taken out. – Robert Hewison

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