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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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About John Churton Collins

	John Churton Collins
	(1848-1908) English literary critic, professor at Birmingham.

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Never trust a man who speaks well of everybody. In prosperity, our friends know us; in adversity, we know our friends. There is often less danger in the things we fear than in the things we desire. To profit from good advice requires more wisdom than to give it.

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