Machiavelli would also instantly recognize our "culture industry" for what it mostly is.
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Machiavelli would also instantly recognize our "culture industry" for what it mostly is.
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Finally, he would be amazed at our complacency about our precious "rights". Machiavelli's warning is clear .
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"If modern Machiavellism -should be questioned, as indeed it should, the questioning must begin with modernity itself. For one thing should be clear by now: by attacking Machiavelli one cannot save the world from the Machiavellism of modernity." Anthony Parel, The Machiavellian Cosmos (New Haven, Yale University Press, 1992). 173
