“People today read less, take fewer museum trips, and attend fewer concerts. Is that because these activities aren't as fun? The decline... can be traced, at least in part, to unconscious stimuli that make us live faster.” PeopleTodayCultureFunActivityFasterUnconsciousMuseumsConcertsFewerDeclineStimulus Book:Wait: The useful art of procrastination Source: Wait: The useful art of procrastination
“All testify to the coercion and sacrifice which culture imposes on man. To rely on them and deny the decline is to become even more firmly caught in its fatal coils.” MenCultureSacrificeCaughtDenyRelyDeclineCoercion Book:Prisms Source: Prisms
“As a kid growing up in the 1950s I became acutely aware of the changes taking place in American culture and I must say I didn't much like it. I witnessed the debasement of architecture, and I could see a decline in the quality of things like comic books and toys, things made for kids. Old things seemed to have more life, more substance, more humanity in them.” MadeBookKidsHumanityCultureQualityGrowing UpGrowingArchitectureComicSubstanceDeclineToysComic BookAmerican CultureOld ThingsKids Growing Up Author:Robert Crumb
“American people, what about the American people? I think the president delights in the fact that they have been roofied by technology and pop culture. They're not conscious to any expansion of power, which is why they're happy to exist in this dependant decline.” PeopleThinkingHas BeensFactsCulturePresidentTechnologyConsciousDelightPopsDeclineExpansionPop Culture Author:Greg Gutfeld