“While the fashion industry may, at least at the top end, be thriving, the notion of fashion itself is becoming more and more meaningless. Any discipline in fashion has long since evaporated; the idea of a single fashionable skirt length, or heel height, is incomprehensible. The definition of the fashionable has become so skimpy that it refers not to the mode of dress of everyday people--the clothes that have sufficiently caught the popular imagination to be worn in a widespread manner--but only to the styles that momentarily excite members of the fashion caravan.” PeopleMayLongIdeasEndsImaginationFashionStyleIndustryBecomingDisciplineMembersClothesDressesNotionEverydayCaughtDefinitionsHeightLengthMeaninglessHeelsWornFashionableSkirtsBecoming MoreFashion IndustryCaravans Author:Rebecca Mead
“African cinema doesn't have an African industry at all and that's where our problem arises. We come to all of these initiatives with a lot of suspicion because we're so inhabited by the notion of being colonized, the post-colonial thought that someone wants us to do something that is their interest and not ours and even it's not true, there's the suspicion of it like where is this going?” WantProblemInterestIndustryNotionArisePostsCinemaInitiativeSuspicionWant U Author:Jihan El-Tahri
“No delusion is greater than the notion that method and industry can make up for lack of mother-wit, either in science or in practical life.” LifeMotherGreaterIndustryMethodNotionMotherhoodWitPracticalsDelusionMother And SonMother SonPractical LifeMother Son RelationshipMother Wit Book:Aphorisms and Reflections from the Works of Thomas Henry Huxley Source: Aphorisms and Reflections from the Works of Thomas Henry Huxley
“Isn't the whole idea behind the massive regulation and regimentation of American industry and society the notion that individuals should be forced to behave in ways defined by a small governmental elite?” WayShouldIdeasWholeIndividualBehindsIndustryNotionDefinedBehaveMassiveElitesRegulationSmall GovernmentRegimentation Author:Thomas DiLorenzo