Over the years, PEI has spent millions to give substance to Hefner's sensate fantasies; today Playboy Enterprises include hotels, clubs, movie, record and book publishing .
Perhaps, eventually, people will grow tired of the "late sensate" society and once again want a hardworking, hard-value nation, an "ideational culture" (to use another of Sorokin's .
Western civilization, he felt, was far too sensate.
Martin Marty in Kentucky Post Marty said this reality is hard for many scholars and journalists to accept, especially those influenced by studies in the 1960s that guaranteed a 21st-century world that would be "secular, sensate, epicurean, hedonistic, contractual, pragmatic,...