Quotessence
Home / Quotes / Quote by Karl Wiggins

Quote by Karl Wiggins

“It’s been suggested that Chavs are the offspring of previous working-class youth subcultures such as Skinheads and in turn Mods, but when you think about it, they’re not at all, are they? Chavs - with their larger bellies, hairless bodies and excessive sweat glands - are evolution in reverse, proof that given time Homo Sapiens can devolve into a more primitive life form. With Chavs, evolution has not only hesitated but is actually in withdrawal. Chavs may well be the ‘missing link’ in the devolution of man into anthropoid.”

Quote by Karl Wiggins

Book:Wrong Planet - Searching for your Tribe
Create image

Work

Wrong Planet - Searching for your Tribe

Browse quotes and source details for this work. more

Author

Karl Wiggins

Browse famous quotes and profile details for Karl Wiggins. more

You May Also Like

“They call it "young music"; I see, however, that the record industry makes millions by the carload for shrewd older people! They invoke the name of spontaneity, nonconformity and originality; actually, canny "clothing industrialists" manipulate the field, undisturbed sovereigns! They call themselves revolutionaries, but the overscrupulous attentions devoted to their hair and their dress risk creating merely effeminates.”

YouthYouth Culture
Book:Illustrissimi: Letters from Pope John Paul I
Create image

“That’s the problem, isn’t it? Our youth enamored society hides death from us, makes us believe that we will live forever," Jack asserted, rather forcefully. "We don’t want to see death. We even hide old people so that we don’t have to be reminded of our own mortality. In other cultures, old age is celebrated, embraced even. Death is a part of life.”

DeathYouth CultureHide Old PeopleHiding Death
Book:The Meditating Psychiatrist Who Tried to Kill Himself
Create image

“The front ramp is gradually lowered, in slow electronic increments. A couple of dozen backpackers stand, inside the lower deck’s muted light, like an army of extraterrestrials. Paros is refilling with English, German, French, Italian, Scandinavian, Australian, and South African tourists. The town remains in motion. Some come. Some go. The cycle appears endless. The entire world appears to wash up on Paros.”

TravelYouth CultureCommunal
Book:Liberté: The Days of Rage 1990-2020
Create image

“The more I talk to students," Freitas says, "the more the culture of hooking up seems really problematic for them. Both young women and young men are seriously unhappy with the way things are; they're really ambivalent about the sex they're having. According to everything they see in pop culture, they're supposed to be having a great time; but it's rare that I find a young man or a young woman who says hooking up is the best thing ever. In reality it seems to empty them out.”

Social MediaYouth CultureHook Up Culture
Book:American Girls: Social Media and the Secret Lives of Teenagers
Create image

“Ironically, for all that youth culture rejects classical music as old-fashioned and out-ofdate, it is the way it is because of an excess of rational thought; it is, literally, too modern. Instead, youth culture yearns for a prerational immediacy, that of the body, of libidinal energy, and for the luxury of blind, adolescent emotions without consequences or responsibilities. Ironic, too, is that popular culture presents a prerational consciousness as the absolutely modern.”

Classical MusicModernityPopular CultureYouth Culture
Book:Who Needs Classical Music?: Cultural Choice and Musical Value
Create image