Sublime

I would contend that the frontal attack was on the lifetime-pace of the suburban good life. But to overthrow this suburban sense of the good life, you needed to discredit the timekeepers themselves. So march on Washington they did. They shouted that the timekeepers of the present, who required a lifetime of loyalty and commitment, were restricting.

Where once hoopers and wainwrights and seamstresses saw themselves as heirs to a proud tradition, each with its secret knowledge, the new bureaucratically organized corporations and their “scientific management” sought as far as possible to literally turn workers into extensions of the machinery, their every move predetermined by someone else.

Thomas Hirschhorn

It is not only information that they need—in this Age of Fact, information often dominates their attention and overwhelms their capacities to assimilate it.

Hofstadter observed that the paranoid style tends to occur in “episodic waves.”

world citizens,

“public sphere.”