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9781438427331 (1438427336), University of New York, 2009

Monotonization of the world. Strong spiritual impression of all travels of the last years, despite the individual happiness: a pale drab of monotonization of the world. Everything is becoming similar in its outward appearances, leveling out in a uniform cultural scheme. The individual customs of peoples are wearing off , the way of dress is becoming uniform, ethics international. Ever more nations seem fused together, people living and working in the same way, cities looking alike. Ever more the fi ne aroma of the specifi cness of cultures evaporates, ever more vengeful the colors peel off , and beneath the cracked layers of varnish the steel-colored pistons of the mechanical bustle, the modern worldmachine, become visible