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Margaret Thatcher in Britain and soon after Ronald Reagan in the United States - both hard-line advocates of market fundamentalism - announced that there was no such thing as society and that government was the problem not the solution. Democracy and the political process were all but sacrificed to the power of corporations and the emerging financial service industries, just as hope was appropriated as an advertisement for a whitewashed world in which the capacity of culture to critique oppressive social practices was greatly diminished.

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Reason cannot save us, nothing can; but reason can mitigate the cruelty of living.

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Self-confidence is inseparable from submission to the creedal order, and through that order, to the supreme authority expressed in that order. . . . Deep individualism cannot exist except in relation to the highest authority. No inner discipline can operate without a charismatic institution, nor can such an institution survive without that supreme authority from a relation to whom self-confidence derives. Without an authority deeply installed, there is no foundation for individuality. Self-confidence thus expresses submission to supreme authority.

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Religious man was born to be saved, psychological man is born to be pleased.

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Intellection must address the matter of its feeling.

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Religion may have been the original cure; Freud reminds us that it was also the original disease.

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Psychological man may be going nowhere, but he aims to achieve a certain speed and certainty in going. Like his predecessor, the man of the market economy, he understands morality as that which is conducive to increased activity. The important thing is to keep going.

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