“What ideas are convenient to express inevitably becomes the important content of a culture.” — Neil Postman, Amusing Ourselves to Death
Tag: culture
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“We do not measure a culture by its output of undisguised trivialities but by what it claims as significant.” — Neil Postman, Amusing Ourselves to Death
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“Armoires are the cockroaches of our culture.” — Chuck Palahniuk, Lullaby
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“I wrote an editorial for high brows and I found a high brow is a man who wouldn’t read anything that was not written by himself.” — Will Rogers, “Casting The Lariat Over Week’s News,” New York Times (1923-12-30)
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“We are all so determined by our culture. Mainly because we learn to play roles.” — Manuel Puig, The Art of Fiction No. 114, the Paris Review (Winter II 1989)
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“One of the most salient features of our culture is that there is so much bullshit. Everyone knows this. Each of us contributes his share.” — Harry Frankfurt, On Bullshit
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“Culture tends to argue that it forbids only that which is unnatural. But from a biological perspective, nothing is unnatural. Whatever is possible is by definition also natural. A truly unnatural behaviour, one that goes against the laws of nature, simply cannot exist, so it would need no prohibition.” — Yuval Noah Harari, Sapiens
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“The strain of anti-intellectualism has been a constant thread winding its way through our political and cultural life, nurtured by the false notion that democracy means that ‘my ignorance is just as good as your knowledge.’” — Isaac Asimov, “A Cult of Ignorance,” Newsweek (1980-01-21)
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“The very act of trying to run counter to the culture is what creates the next wave of culture people will in turn attempt to counter.” — David McRaney, You Are Not So Smart
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“The first effect of modernism was to make high culture difficult: to surround beauty with a wall of erudition.” — Roger Scruton, Modern Culture
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