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In contemporary American public culture, the legacy of the consumer revolution of the 1960s is unmistakable. Today, there are few things more beloved of our masses than the figure of the cultural rebel, the defiant individualist resisting the mandates of the machine civilization. Whether he is an athlete decked out in a mowhawk and multiple-pierced ears, a policeman who plays by his own rules, an actor on a motorcycle, a soldier of fortune with explosive bow and arrow, or a rock star in leather jacket and sunglasses, the rebel has become the paramount cliché of our popular entertainment, and the pre-eminent symbol of the system he is supposed to be subverting. In advertising especially, he rules supreme Thomas Frank		Friday Jul 18, 2025
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The optimist proclaims that we live in the best of all possible worlds, and the pessimist fears this is true. James Branch Cabell

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	James Branch Cabell
	James Branch Cabell (April 14, 1879 - May 5, 1958) was an American author of fantasy fiction and belles lettres. While Cabell's surname is often mispronounced "Ka-BELL", he himself pronounced it "CAB-ble". To remind an editor of the correct pronunciation, Cabell composed this rhyme: "Tell the rabble my name is Cabell." Read More

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The optimist proclaims that we live in the best of all possible worlds, and the pessimist fears this is true. There is not any memory with less satisfaction than the memory of some temptation we resisted. Patriotism is the religion of Hell. The optimist proclaims that we live in the best of all possible worlds; and the pessimist fears this is true.