节选自伊格尔顿《人生的意义》
文化生活在某种意义上变得愈发重要，成长为物质生产的一个单独的行业或分支。但在另一种意义上，文化又降格为一种社会秩序的门面装饰，这种社会秩序只关心那些可以标价和测算的东西。文化现在主要变成了人们工作之余打发时间的无害手段。
——P21，特里·伊格尔顿《人生的意义》（朱新伟译，译林出版社2012年11月第1版）
附英语原文（P22）：
Cultural life had grown more important in one sense,burgeoning into a
whole industry or branch of material production.In another
sense,however,it had dwindled to the window-dressing of a social order
which had exceedingly little time for anything it could not price or
measure.Culture was now largely a matter of how to keep people
harmlessly distracted when they were not working.
——P21，特里·伊格尔顿《人生的意义》（朱新伟译，译林出版社2012年11月第1版）
附英语原文（P22）：
Cultural life had grown more important in one sense,burgeoning into a
whole industry or branch of material production.In another
sense,however,it had dwindled to the window-dressing of a social order
which had exceedingly little time for anything it could not price or
measure.Culture was now largely a matter of how to keep people
harmlessly distracted when they were not working.