Western Civilization has been going to the dogs for so long that it’s tempting to pipe up, like an aggravating child from the back seat during a long road trip, and ask if we’re there yet. According to Peruvian Nobel laureate Mario Vargas Llosa, we are. His new book “Notes on the Death of Culture: Essays on Spectacle and Society”announces that culture — at least as we used to understand it — is now officially “dead.” Sure, it might survive in a few “small social enclaves, without influence on the mainstream,” but everywhere else it has been replaced with mere entertainment.
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