"A mass culture is a culture which can be appropriated by the meanest capacities without any intellectual or moral effort whatsoever. … Liberal education is the counterpoison to mass culture, to the corroding effects of mass culture, to its inherent tendency to produce nothing but “specialists without spirit or vision and voluptuaries without heart.”"
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Leo Strauss, “What is liberal education,” Liberalism, Ancient and Modern (1968), p. 5 — The phrase “specialists without spirit or vision and voluptuaries without heart.” is from Max Weber
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