Culture is the tacit agreement to let the means of subsistence disappe…

Karl Kraus
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Culture is the tacit agreement to let the means of subsistence disappear behind the purpose of existence. ✨ In these great times by Karl Kraus, translated by Harry Zohn, Montreal, pp. 73-74, (In these great times), 1976.
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