The real community of man is the community of those who seek the truth, of the potential knowers.
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Nothing is more singular about this generation than its addiction to music.Allan Bloom
The real community of man, in the midst of all the self-contradictory simulacra of community, is the community of those who seek the truth
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Fathers and mothers have lost the idea that the highest aspiration they might have for their children is for them to be wise... specialized competence and success are all that they can imagine.
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As soon as tradition has come to be recognized as tradition, it is dead.
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Rock gives children, on a silver platter, with all the public authority of the entertainment industry, everything their parents always used to tell them they had to wait for until they grew up and would understand later.
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