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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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Every civilization rests on a set of promises.... If the promises are broken too often, the civilization dies, no matter how rich it may be, or how mechanically clever. Hope and faith depend on the promises; if hope and faith go, everything goes. Herbert Sebastian Agar

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	Herbert Sebastian Agar
	(1897-1980) The People's Choice, from Washington to Harding: A Study in Democracy, 1933 - US author, wrote historian, Pulitzer Prize for history 1934.

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The truth that makes men free is for the most part the truth which men prefer not to hear. Every civilization rests on a set of promises.... If the promises are broken too often, the civilization dies, no matter how rich it may be, or how mechanically clever. Hope and faith depend on the promises; if hope and faith go, everything goes.