Monthly Archives: May 2009

Power needs culture

By duncombe | Published: May 18, 2009
from Terry Eagleton’s new book: Reason, Faith and Revolution (Yale: 2009) p. 150 “Culture is what beds power down, interweaving it with our lived experience and thus tightening its grip upon us. An authority which fails to do this will loom up as too abstract and aloof, and thus fail to secure its citizens’ unqualified [...]
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Tom Robbins on success

By SteveL | Published: May 8, 2009
“plans are one thing and fate another. when they coincide, success results. yet, success musn’t be considered the absolute. it is questionable, for that matter, whether success is an adequate response to life. success can eliminate as many options as failure.” -Tom Robbins, Even Cowgirls Get the Blues (thanks Liz Filardi)
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