Arthur Koestler

I came across Roots of coincidence in Alan Moore's V for Vendetta.
I looked up Lotus and the Robot and wangled a second hand copy from Amazon.
Great book.

For we live in a state of cultural osmosis....has become irresistible. What makes it irresistible are the new media of mass communication ;and what makes the emerging pattern so vulgar is the emergence of the under privileged classes with their undeveloped tastes as consumers of mass culture.The result is that inevitable levelling-down of standards to the lowest common denominator which accompanied every revolution in the past. The liquidation of slums entails a period of cultural slumming ,though only transitory one hopes.