“Twentieth-century culture's disease is the inability to feel their reality. People cluster to TV, soap operas, movies, theater, pop idols and they have wild emotion over symbols. But in the reality of their own lives, they're emotionally dead.” PeopleFeelsRealityCultureEmotionCenturyTvsDiseaseTheaterPopsSymbolsOperaIdolsInabilityTwentieth CenturySoapSoap OperasMovie TheaterClusters Author:Jim Morrison
“and in some of the people of the town and community surrounding it, one of the characteristic diseases of the twentieth century was making its way: the suspicion that they would be greatly improved if they were somewhere else.” PeopleIfsWayWould BeCommunityCenturyDiseaseTownsCharacteristicsSuspicionSomewhere ElseTwentieth Century Author:Wendell Berry
“In the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, old people in America had prayed, "Please God, don't let me look poor." In the year 2000, they prayed, "Please God, don't let me look old." Sexiness was equated with youth, and youth ruled. The most widespread age-related disease was not senility but juvenility.” PeopleYearsLooksAgeAmericaPoorCenturyYouthPleaseDiseaseLateLet MeRelatedOld PeopleTwentieth CenturySexinessSenility Book:Hooking Up Source: Hooking Up