Sentences with phrase «cultural world domination»

The painting pairs the figurehead dictator of a brutal repressive state who has aspirations of world dominance; with a pop star whose video did in fact achieve a kind of cultural world domination.

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America, being the remaining inheritor of Western world power, has yet even to try to realize that domination is no longer a possibility or a possible goal, that world power must be shared, not only with other groups with their own interests but with groups holding quite other cultural and value systems — and thus that the continuation of our power (and that of our forms of cultural order) is precarious at best.

This rising tide of cultural domination can be turned back in two ways: through the support of efforts in the third world to achieve local communication that reflects local needs; and through reform of the media in the first world — which we will consider in some detail in Chapter 11, «What We Can Do.»

For us, it must start with the vision of a peaceful world, where gradually the production and distribution of armaments gives way to the production and distribution of goods and services that benefit the human race instead of threatening to destroy it, a vision of the rule of law rather than of economic domination, a vision of democracy where people are able to have a real say in what their own future will be, a vision of smallness and community involvement, a vision of cultural pluralism and a diversity of ideas, a vision of leisure spent meeting human needs.

In a general sense, one can speak of four areas of struggle: (i) the system of economic exploitation and social stratification (racial segregation, women's working conditions, unemployment and the new legislation of «flexibility and «deregulation); (ii) the ideology (the way of representing the world, social relations, etc.) that justifies the system — the new ideologies of race superiority, the religious legitimation of competition and the so - called free market as the only and sufficient way of organizing human life (iii) the ways in which the consciousness of the oppressed, is led to interject this ideology of domination and to develop a feeling of self - denial and self - devaluation; (iv) the atomization of the society through the weakening and destruction of neighborhood, workers and local cultural manifestations.

Ultimately, the exponential cultural ratchet effect is demonstrated by humans» domination of the world today, said Hill and Marean, who collected proposals from the gathered researchers for a possible flowchart and eventual timeline.

A military - minded research program is great when you're going for world domination while paying more attention to religion and the arts is key for a cultural victory.

These have included a group called Fanny Adams, protesting against male domination of the art world, the K Foundation (formerly pop band KLF) who awarded # 40,000 to Rachel Whiteread as the «worst shortlisted artist» in 1993, and FAT (Fashion, Architecture and Taste) who objected to the «cultural elitism» of the art establishment.

On 14 December 1960, the United Nations General Assembly passed a resolution, the Declaration on the Granting of Independence to Colonial Countries and Peoples.113 The Declaration includes a provision that «the subjection of peoples to alien subjugation, domination and exploitation constitutes a denial of fundamental human rights, is contrary to the Charter of the United Nations and is an impediment to the promotion of world peace and co-operation» 114 and «all peoples have the right to self - determination; by virtue of that right they freely determine their political status and freely pursue their economic, social and cultural development.»