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that civilization itself is being overturned.
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Third, the idea that the paradigm of experience is artistic experience,
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that the norms for everyone
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should be artistic norms of careful perception, deep reflection,
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that the idea that culture itself is the saving,
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most important activity that people can engage in.
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Fourth--and this goes along with that--a rejection of convention,
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especially sexual convention, sexual morality,
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and that's the obvious connection to this book,
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the very deep roots of modernism.
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However, at the same time there's an idea
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that the artist is a kind of technician,