Word: materialistically
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Generally, however, a day with the games is an anxious, sweaty thing-like the fever dream of a dull-witted materialist. As an experience, it is far less resonant than watching those former targets of cheap-shot cultural critics, the soap operas. At least the soaps deal with a few emotions other than greed. The quiz shows, one cannot help concluding, are just one more thing from which the American woman deserves to be liberated...
Kowlakowski does not assume a particularized knowledge of dialectical materialism or post-Marxist debate, but he demands familiarity with the basic philosophical issues. The idealist versus materialist argument, the role of praxis, the creation of ideology, the objectivity of labor all crop up time and again in his various case studies...
Weil terms the non-materialist, non-intellectual manner of perception "stoned thinking," primarily because the words "stoned" and "straight" are common usage and easily grasped. Stoned thinking is characterized by reliance on intuition--deductive thinking based on direct experience--as well as intellection. As acceptance of intuitive perception encourages an understanding of "the ambivalent nature of things"--paradox, Yin-Yang--and a sense that infinite reality is not a threat but rather an invitation to explore. Stoned thinking in Weil's terms is conductive to that rare sense of being at home in the universe...
...apparently reasonable judgments. For a long time, Luce could not admit to himself Chiang's fatal weaknesses. Similarly, men who called Luce a fascist in the 1930s could not face the fact of Stalin's purges. Today liberals regard the American labor movement as warmongering, reactionary and materialist; 40 years ago, they assumed that the rise of strong unions would make egalitarian America awake and sing. The sense of One Worldly responsibility that Luce and others followed to stir the U.S. out of isolationism in 1937-1940, and so help preserve Europe from Adolf Hitler, has now become...
...There are two equal and opposite errors into which our race can fall about the devils. One is to disbelieve in their existence. The other is to believe, and to feel an excessive and unhealthy interest in them. They themselves are equally pleased by both errors, and hail a materialist or a magician with the same delight...