“Do we have free will, or do the mass media and our culture control us, our desires and actions, from the moment we’re born?” MomentsActionDesireCultureBornMediaMassFree WillMass Media Author:Chuck Palahniuk
“Modern mass culture, aimed at the "consumer", the civilisation of prosthetics, is crippling people's souls, setting up barriers between man and the crucial questions of his existence, his consciousness of himself as a spiritual being.” PeopleMenSoulSpiritualCultureExistenceConsciousnessModernMassSettingSettingsConsumersBarriersCrucialCivilisationSpiritual BeingsMass CultureProsthetics Author:Andrei Tarkovsky
“This work, though it deals only with eating and drinking, which are regarded in the eyes of our supernaturalistic mock-culture as the lowest acts, is of the greatest philosophic significance and importance... How former philosophers have broken their heads over the question of the bond between body and soul! Now we know, on scientific grounds, what the masses know from long experience, that eating and drinking hold together body and soul, that the searched-for bond is nutrition.” KnowsLongSoulBodyEyeTogetherCultureDealsFoodBrokenEatingMassImportanceDrinkingPhilosopherFormerSignificanceNutritionLowestMockPhilosophicEating And Drinking Author:Ludwig Feuerbach
“Gardening is not trivial. If you believe that it is, closely examine why you feel that way. You may discover that this attitude has been forced upon you by mass media and the crass culture it creates and maintains. The fact is, gardening is just the opposite - it is, or should be, a central, basic expression of human life.” IfsWayFeelsShouldBelieveHumansMayHas BeensFactsCultureAttitudeMediaExpressionMassGardenOppositesHuman LifeGardeningIf You BelieveMass MediaCrass Author:Andrew Weil
“The hard truth is that what may be acceptable in elite culture may not be acceptable in mass culture, that tastes which pose only innocent ethical issues as the property of a minority become corrupting when they become more established. Taste is context, and the context has changed.” MayHardCultureIssuesChangedTasteTruth IsMassPropertyInnocentMinoritiesEthicalElitesAcceptableHard TruthsMass CultureEthical Issues Author:Susan Sontag
“The premise upon which mass compulsion schooling is based is dead wrong. It tries to shoehorn every style, culture, and personality into one ugly boot that fits nobody.” TryingSchoolCultureStylePersonalityFitMassUglyBootsCompulsionPremisesSchooling Author:John Taylor Gatto
“The historic role of the consumer has been nothing more than a giant maw at the end of the mass media's long conveyer belt, the all-absorbing Yin to the mass media's all-producing Yang....In the age of the internet, no one is a passive consumer anymore because everyone is a media outlet.” LongHas BeensEndsAgeCultureRolesTechnologyMediaInternetMassMarketingConsumersGiantsPassiveHistoricBeltsOutletsAbsorbingMass MediaYang Author:Clay Shirky