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The Cultural Contradictions of Capitalism by Daniel Bell

Worker and Parasite

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Is It Impossible for Small Communities to Police Theirself With Actual Police?

"It's impossible for small communities to police themselves with actual police. Like you're not, you're not going to do that," he says. "Now you can get in a car and go to the town down the road to get your porn...and it's more anonymous and more yim side." He goes into great detail about how modernity or modern art are made possible by capitalism - even though economists hadn't fully taken on this part of his theory until now.

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