Sentences with phrase «cultural philistinism»

Benign neglect is one thing, but wanton destruction, often as a result of local authority cost cutting, was cultural philistinism at its worst.

It strikes me with something akin to terror to think how we permitted ourselves to be taken in, silenced and neutralized, by the boyish grin and a trickle - down prosperity while resurgent racism, Rambo militarism, cultural philistinism, and unregulated, let - them - eat - cake capitalism swaggered across the stage on an eight - year run.