“I'm not a big crime reader, but I'm reading Michael Connelly's 'The Reversal.' I'm going back to his novels. I'm also reading Keith Richards' 'Life.' I'm always fascinated by the transition from the innocent late '60s and early '70s and the youth culture becoming an industry.” BigsCultureReadingNovelCrimeYouthIndustryReaderBecomingLateInnocentTransitionFascinatedKeithReversalYouth Culture Author:Jo Nesbo
“It is short-sighted, not to say stupid, in the correct desire to be relevant as Christian artists in an unchristian age, to pick up the secular fashion of the immediate generation before us and immerse oneself in that as your tradition. That's why Christian artists so often seem to be a generation late.” SeemsAgeChristianDesireArtistCultureChristianityGenerationsFashionStupidLatePicksTraditionOneselfRelevantSecularShort SightedUnchristian Author:Calvin Seerveld
“In every human society of which we have any record, there are those who teach and those who learn, for learning a way of life is implicit in all human culture as we know it. But the separation of the teacher's role from the role of all adults who inducted the young into the habitual behavior of the group, was a comparatively late invention. Furthermore, when we do find explicit and defined teaching, in primitive societies we find it tied in with a sense of the rareness or the precariousness of some human tradition.” KnowsWayHumansYoungLife IsCultureRolesTeachRecordsTeacherGroupsTeachingBehaviorLateAdultsTraditionSeparationInventionDefinedTiedPrimitiveHabitualHuman SocietyExplicitImplicit Author:Margaret Mead
“Over the years, I have become convinced that Hellenism as a culture represents not a static condition of uniform sublimity mysteriously achieved and maintained as an effect of some racial advantage. Rather it should be understood as an evolving process, governed by a dynamic of change, as both language and thought underwent transformational alteration caused by a transition from orality to literacy. The instrument of change is discerned to be the invention of the Greek alphabet, at a quite late stage in the history of developing cultures.” ShouldYearsCultureLanguageProcessConditionsEffectsStageLateUnderstoodAdvantageInstrumentsConvincedInventionDevelopingEvolveGreekTransitionUniformsLiteracyStaticAlphabetAlterationsSublimityHellenism Author:Eric A. Havelock
“Great cycles of history began with vigorous cultures awakening to the needs of children, but collapsing with frayed family ties. Have we failed to learn lessons which Ancient China, Greece and Rome learned too late - about day care and death houses for old folks? Do we without protest accept accelerating preschool and nursing home cultures which warn ominously that the earlier you institutionalize your child, the earlier he will institutionalize you!” NeedsChildrenHomeCareSchoolCultureHouseAcceptingLessonsLateOur ChildrenAncientFolksChinaAwakeningYour ChildrenTiesToo LateProtestCyclesRomeGreeceNursingVigorousLearning LessonsPreschoolNursing HomeFamily TiesDay CareGreece And Rome Author:Raymond S. Moore