“Art comes from the world, belongs to it, can never escape from it.”
William Saroyan (1908–1981) American writer
My Heart's in the Highlands (1939)
“Mass culture is a way to escape from the psychological suffering that comes with that insight into the human condition, an escape alternative to the one preached by world religions. Mass culture is a modern invention to escape from existential anguish.”
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