“…my friend Dr. Arno Gruen, author of The Insanity of Normality, has said an interesting thing. He said that culture, in recent decades, has taken on a life of its own, without reference to the people it is supposed to protect.”

—  George W. S. Trow

My Pilgrim’s Progress (1999)

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