pseudo-culture

The rise of our contemporary shallow culture is an escape from the difficulties of true self-exploration into the trite banalities of psycho-babble of the self-esteem we are all a victim pseudo-culture we now inhabit.

From The Archive: Staring Up At The Stars David Hadley 2008

The rise of our contemporary shallow culture is an escape from the difficulties of true self-exploration into the trite banalities of psycho-babble of the self-esteem we are all a victim pseudo-culture we now inhabit.

Archive 2008-09-01 David Hadley 2008

Violently "independent", inanely litigious and quarrelsome, solipsistically provincial, and fatuously ignorant - this nation of video clips and sound bites, the United States, is often perceived as trying to impose its narcissistic pseudo-culture upon a world exhausted by wars hot and cold and corrupted by vacuous materialism.

The Roots of Anti-Americanism 2006

One has to keep the contrast steadily in mind: if we hitch a political development to a cultural one, as in separatism, we get a kind of neo-fascism; if we hitch a cultural development to a political one, we get a pompous, bureaucratic pseudo-culture.

The Authority of Learning 1984

He saw at once that what might prove a wonderful power in the civic life of the nation was being misdirected into gatherings of pseudo-culture, where papers ill-digested and mostly copied from books were read and superficially discussed.

Women’s Clubs and Woman Suffrage 1921

He who surveys the greatest supporters and friends of that pseudo-culture of the present time, which I so greatly detest, will only too frequently find among them such degenerate and shipwrecked men of culture, driven by inward despair to violent enmity against culture, when, in a moment of desperation, there was no one at hand to show them how to attain it.

On the Future of our Educational Institutions Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche 1872

From it we expect a victory over that 'up-to-date' pseudo-culture which is now the fashion.

On the Future of our Educational Institutions Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche 1872

This eternal hierarchy, towards which all things naturally tend, is always threatened by that pseudo-culture which now sits on the throne of the present.

On the Future of our Educational Institutions Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche 1872

This spirit is a stranger: it passes by in solitary sadness, and far away from it the censer of pseudo-culture is swung backwards and forwards, which, amidst the acclamations of 'educated' teachers and journalists, arrogates to itself its name and privileges, and metes out insulting treatment to the word 'German.'

On the Future of our Educational Institutions Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche 1872

Now, tell me, distinguished master, what hopes could I still have in a struggle against the general topsy-turvification of all genuine aims for education; with what courage can I, a single teacher, step forward, when I know that the moment any seeds of real culture are sown, they will be mercilessly crushed by the roller of this pseudo-culture?

On the Future of our Educational Institutions Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche 1872

André Gorz, writing more than half a century earlier, terms this “pseudo-culture,” a counterfeit culture that does not arise out of ways of living but seeks to impose itself upon it.

Pseudo-culture Mandy Brown 2026