Holidays are in no sense an alternative to the congestion and bustle of cities and work. Quite the contrary. People look to escape into an intensification of the conditions of ordinary life, into a deliberate aggravation of those conditions: further from nature, nearer to artifice, to abstraction, to total pollution, to well above average levels of stress, pressure, concentration and monotony -- this is the ideal of popular entertainment. No one is interested in overcoming alienation; the point is to plunge into it to the point of ecstasy. That is what holidays are for. topic
Also known as
- Add other possible names for this topic
With the exception of Wikipedia summaries and some images the
content on this page is typically distributed under
the Creative Commons
Attribution license or Public Domain.
This quotation was provided by QuotationsBook.com.
| Gallery | add |
There are no images for this topic yet.
Edit Weblinks
There are no weblinks for this topic yet.
Recent Discussions about Holidays are in no sense an alternative to the congestion and bustle of cities and work. Quite the contrary. People look to escape into an intensification of the conditions of ordinary life, into a deliberate aggravation of those conditions: further from nature, nearer to artifice, to abstraction, to total pollution, to well above average levels of stress, pressure, concentration and monotony -- this is the ideal of popular entertainment. No one is interested in overcoming alienation; the point is to plunge into it to the point of ecstasy. That is what holidays are for.
There are no conversations on this topic. Would you like to start one?
Start the Discussion »