“American culture is no longer created by the people... A free, authentic life is no longer possible in AmericaTM today. We are being manipulated in the most insidious way. Our emotions, personalities and core values are under siege from media and cultural forces too complex to decode. A continuous product message has woven itself into the very fabric of our existence. Most North Americans now live designer lives-sleep, eat, sit in car, work, shop, watch TV, sleep again. I doubt there's more than a handful of free, spontaneous minutes anywhere in that cycle. We ourselves have been branded.” PeopleWayHas BeensTodayLife IsValuesCultureForceSleepEmotionExistenceWatchesDoubtMinutesMediaCarTvsProductsPersonalityMessagesComplexesCoreDesignerShopsCyclesFabricConsumerismSpontaneousHandfulAmerican CultureWovenOverconsumptionInsidiousCore ValuesSiegeBrandedAuthentic LifeUnder Siege Author:Kalle Lasn
“Celebrity life and media culture are probably the most overbearing pop-cultural conditions that we as young people have to deal with, because it forces us to judge ourselves.” PeopleYoungCultureForceDealsConditionsMediaJudgingPopsOverbearingCelebrity Life Author:Lady Gaga
“We are going to see a great number of articles in the future from so-called experts and public officials. They will warn about more violence, more kidnappings, and more terrorists. Mass media, the armed forces, and intelligence agencies will saturate our lives with fascist scare tactics and 'predictions' that have already been planned to come true.” ForceNumbersOur LivesViolenceMediaMassTerroristExpertsAgencyOfficialsScareArticlesPredictionsTacticsFascistsArmed ForcesMass MediaKidnappingPublic OfficialsIntelligence AgenciesScare Tactics Author:Mae Brussell
“I'm very excited about this wonderful opportunity to take part in the evolution of a company that is integral to the Hispanic community and a powerful force in all areas of the media.” OpportunityForceCommunityPowerfulCompanyWonderfulMediaEvolutionAreasExcitedHispanic Author:Gloria Estefan
“Possibly worst of all, from the standpoint of the dedicated enemies of freedom, the Internet is a world that libertarians - having been marginalized for three decades by the establishment media - have made their own, almost without effort. It's an alternative reality (unlike 'meat-space' we live in) in which - exactly like intelligence, bravery, or virtue - the human capacity for violence is not additive, and in which it's impossible to initiate force against anybody.” WorldHumansMadeRealityThreeForceSpaceEffortEnemyVirtueViolenceImpossibleWorstMediaInternetCapacityBraveryLibertarianDecadesAlternativesMeatDedicatedEstablishmentStandpointInitiateMarginalizedHuman CapacityAdditives Author:L. Neil Smith
“I'm still here. I'm a force to be reckoned with... you have to come take my spot, and not through Twitter and not through the media, come take my spot. I'm ready to go. As big men in the league, there are two who have done something special during this millennium. I'm one and Tim Duncan is the other. Anyone else has to come upstairs and see the Shogun. I'm still the Shogun.” MenStillsTwoDoneBigsForceSpecialMediaReadyBasketballSpotsLeagueSomething SpecialMillenniumUpstairsDuncanShoguns Author:Shaquille O'Neal
“I realized that social media can be powerful force for good in the world and that acts of kindness can be scaled globally.” WorldForceSocialPowerfulKindnessMediaSocial MediaI RealizedActs Of KindnessGood In The World Author:Amy Jo Martin
“[The media can be] the greatest force for peace on the earth [for] it is how we come to understand each other.” EarthForceMedia Author:Amy Goodman
“For the past several centuries the bonding power of the family dinner table has been one of the few constants, and now it's binding no more. The potency of the media is now stronger than that of the family. The wonder is that families still exist at all, since the forces of modern life mainly all pull people away from a family centered way of life.” PeopleWayHas BeensStillsPastForceWonderModernCenturyMediaStrongerTablesDinnerModern LifeBindingBondingDinner TablePotencyFamily Dinner Book:Walter Benjamin at the Dairy Queen: Reflections on Sixty and Beyond Source: Walter Benjamin at the Dairy Queen: Reflections on Sixty and Beyond
“The problem is that Iran has been identified as a dangerous enemy, and the longer the media forwards that proposition - and the media is guilty, just as it was in the Iraq war - then the easier it becomes for Americans to accept that we might just have to resort to military force to remove any Iranian threat.” Has BeensWarProblemMightForceAcceptingEnemyMediaMilitaryDangerousEasierThreatIraqGuiltyRemoveIranPropositionsResortsIraq WarIranianMilitary Force Author:Hooman Majd
“I get that that the violent illegal immigrants will be removed from the country. But what I am not hearing and I am wondering, for people out there - and, look, it’s not just the liberal media, right? It’s also conservatives. It’s Rush Limbaugh. It’s Governor Sarah Palin. It’s other people who want Donald Trump to win who are saying, wow, it sounds like he is really backing away from this deportation force…” PeopleWantLooksCountryWinningForceSoundWonderMediaTrumpHearingViolentImmigrantsIllegalWowGovernorsPalinIllegal ImmigrantsDeportationLiberal MediaBacking Away Author:Jake Tapper
“Today there is no greater force in the molding of the North American mind than the invasion of the imagination by the visual media.” MindTodayForceImaginationGreaterMediaVisualsInvasionMolding Author:Ravi Zacharias
“There is the possibility that these troops will be used against us if we are victorious. There is also the possibility that in fact the South Africans are there at the invitation of Britain, because Britain is hesitating to remove them. Hence there is a need for us to combine forces and demand through all political platforms, through all media, the withdrawal of South African troops and action, definite action, by Britain to get those South African troops out.” IfsNeedsFactsActionPoliticalUsedForceMediaPossibilityDemandSouthBritainRemovePlatformsTroopsSouth AfricaDefiniteInvitationsWithdrawal Author:Robert Mugabe
“We don't know what truth is anymore. You or other media people can say there's no problem, but you're losing your credibility. There's distortion, and it's hurting our society. And as a result of that, there will be forces that, one way or another, are going to naturally bring that into equilibrium.” PeopleKnowsWayProblemForceHurtResultsMediaTruth IsLosingOne WayOur SocietyNo ProblemCredibilityDistortionEquilibrium Author:Ray Dalio