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Vote: | A radical is a prodigal son. For him, the world is a strange place whose contours have to be explored according to one's destiny. He may eventually return to the house of his elders, but the return is by choice, and not, as of those who stayed behind, of unblinking filial obedience. |
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Vote: | But in action, one defies one's character. |
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Vote: | Europe, in legend, has always been the home of subtle philosophical discussion; America was the land of grubby pragmatism. |
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Vote: | I am too weary to listen, too angry to hear. |
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Vote: | Technology, like art, is a soaring exercise of the human imagination. |
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Vote: | The impulse of the journalist is to be novel, yet to relate his curiosities to the urgencies of the moment; the philosopher seeks what he conceives to be true, regardless of the moment. |
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Vote: | The intellectual takes as a starting point his self and relates the world to his own sensibilities; the scientist accepts an existing field of knowledge and seeks to map out the unexplored terrain. |
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Vote: | The position of the Jews through the centuries, a stranger in every land, no voice, no ban their own, deepens this traumatic condition. For not only have they no home as their own as a people, but within each alien culture the strange gods tear away the sons and there is no home in the family. |
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Vote: | When theology erodes and organization crumbles, when the institutional framework of religion begins to break up, the search for a direct experience which people can feel to be religious facilitates the rise of cults. |
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Daniel Bell (born 10 May 1919) is a sociologist and professor emeritus at Harvard University. He is a scholar in residence of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. In the past, Bell taught sociology at Columbia University. He is also known for his contributions as an editor to The Public Interest Magazine, Fortune and The New Leader.
He is best known for his contributions to post-industrialism. His most influential books are The End of Ideology (1960), The Cultural Contradictions of Capitalism (1976) and The Coming of Post-Industrial Society (1973). The End of Ideology has been influential in what was called endism. This is the idea that both history and ideology have been reduced to insignificance because Western democratic politics and capitalism have triumphed. At the time, Bell was attacked by politically left-wing critics. They claimed that Bell has lost touch with reality. They particularly pointed to the so-called Third World and argued that endism was just another guise for the status quo.
In The Coming of Post-Industrial Society Bell outlined a new kind of society. He argued that post-industrialism would be information-led and service-oriented. Bell also argued that the post-industrial society would replace the industrial society as the dominant system. There are three components to a post-industrial society, according to Bell:
* a shift from manufacturing to services
* the centrality of the new science-based industries
* the rise of new technical elites and the advent of a new principle of stratification
Since the publication of his book, many of the predictions have turned true. He rightly predicted mass consumption, but failed to foresee the social cost, such as loss of job security or mass unemployment. His work is nevertheless highly regarded.
See also: post-industrialism, ideology, modernism
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