The were victims of an ideology as well. That's where some of my perspective comes from. In a way, we don't have a culture anymore. What we don't have is a culture where all people get together and have rituals. Churches used to provide that, but I think most people now, that great middle class, are culture-less.
Nobody knows how to dance or sing at ritual events . . .
What keeps the mass culture we have going is novelty, and money. But if we ever have a society with less money, I'm not sure what's going to happen, because we're kind of a culture-less society. We have a culture of work. Even people with lots of money put in eighteen hour days at work. . . It's all kind of strange.