"For the amoral herd that fears boredom above all else, everything becomes entertainment. Sex and sport, politics and the arts are transformed into entertainment. … Nothing is immune from the demand that boredom be relieved (but without personal involvement, for mass society is a spectator society)."
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Merold Westphal, Kierkegaard’s Critique of Reason and Society, p. 50.
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