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“Postmodern cynicism and demystification have lost their edge and become merely perverse forms of naivete. Yet traditional religions have their limits, and the newer religions strain our credulity. But sacrality, properly understood, is nothing other than reverence for the personhood of what cannot simply be appropriated by our appetite. Christianity has already taught us that the highest form of worship is that which understands the humanity of the sacred center. The best way for us to extend the Christian lesson of post-sacrificial sacrality into the postmodern era is to conserve our worshipful energy for those closest to us, those alone whom we can really love because we can expect them to love us in return. Enjoy this column? Yes No Δ”

— Eric Gans, On Celebrity · Saturday, September 6th, 1997 · Chronicles of Love & Resentment