“Like a doctor watching a patient in agony, the nostalgist feels powerless before the passage of time, as was the case for many anthropologists. Some of them felt outrage and a sense, no doubt, of personal loss.” NostalgiaAnthropologyPassage Of TimeCultural StudiesCultural Loss Book:Losing Culture: Nostalgia, Heritage, and Our Accelerated Times Source: Losing Culture: Nostalgia, Heritage, and Our Accelerated Times
“Subtle distinctions of pronunciation in our language are being lost and words are becoming slimy, spoken often with an idiotic smile as speakers fashionably soften nonexistent consonants. Degenerate. Like children, half-articulate, vacuous, infantile orators roll words around their mouths like hot potatoes, as though they were toothless, they shift them about, squash them, then open their mouths to eject a mash, a sticky pre-masticated porridge, which slides down their chins.” CultureLanguageDegradationPronunciationCultural Loss Book:EEG Source: EEG