a society of public pursuits, like Periclean Athens

And youth is becoming permanent, in the demand that adults keep up an outward show of juvenescence.

Thanatos enters through the door opened by Eros

Having lived through the phantasm evidently does not diminish the phantasm.

not only for prurient adults but for the collegians themselves

what has passed as liberation has often been liberalization. (Marcuse used this distinction.)

the "adaptive" and trend-spotting culture; a dialectic ultimately reproduced inside individuals who doubt

it had been a basic condition for all human societies since the early Holocene

the frightening apothegm of one last health-food advertisement