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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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'Whatever is, is not,' is the maxim of the anarchist, as often as anything comes across him in the shape of a law which he happens not to like. Richard Bentley

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	Richard Bentley
	Richard Bentley (January 27, 1662 — July 14, 1742) was an English theologian, classical scholar and critic. Read More

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'Whatever is, is not,' is the maxim of the anarchist, as often as anything comes across him in the shape of a law which he happens not to like. The fortuitous or casual concourse of atoms. It is a maxim with me that no man was ever written out of reputation but by himself.