Sentences with phrase «cultural decay»

Western civilization has yet to reverse or even stem the tide of cultural decay attendant on them.

His hypothesis is that slow development and often even cultural decay are the fruits of this bifurcation, whereas the inadvertent wedding of these two disparate functions of reason during the last century and a half have produced an unprecedented cultural advance: imagination now focused on the improvement of technique; technique guided, illuminated, and immeasurably enhanced through experiment with imaginative alternatives to the given and the known (FR 42).

Could the ideologically motivated «cultural elite» of the media, academe, and entertainment industry really have brought about our current state of cultural decay all by themselves?

Mass Distractions & Cultural Decay at Mason Gross Galleries is one such instance.

Still, Mike Judge dots each appealingly cheap scene with spastic sight gags and offers fiendishly hilarious, frighteningly plausible examples of cultural decay.

But since de Bruyn doesn't evaluate the moral, political, and spiritual content of Burke's choice - a content we could assess for its continuing merit today - the «polite society» defended by Burke seems hardly preferable to the cultural decay he feared.

Burke's defense of his society and fear of its pathologies appears almost arbitrary: «While Burke's writings are deeply implicated in a popular and widespread discourse of cultural decay, he nonetheless chooses consciously to imitate a literary, high - cultural variant of that discourse.»

However, Judge and co-writer Etan Cohen dotted every appealingly cheap scene with spastic sight gags and offered examples of cultural decay that were fiendishly hilarious and frighteningly plausible (e.g., a TV show called «Ow!

Still, cities and towns bilk their residents (those that pay taxes) to support the cultural decay I have only hinted at.