Why Culture Sucks
The more we sever ourselves from a literate, print-based world, a world of complexity and nuance, a world of ideas, for one informed by comforting, reassuring images, fantasies, slogans, celebrities, and a lust for violence, the more we are destined to implode. As the collapse continues and our suffering mounts, we yearn, like World Wrestling Enter
... See moreChris Hedges • Empire of Illusion: The End of Literacy and the Triumph of Spectacle
This is the flip side of our culture of artificiality. Anything that threatens the dominant fakeness with reality stirs up an intense backlash. The dreamer does not want to awaken from the dream.
So are you surprised that everything in culture has a feeling of unreality right now? It’s like cotton candy that shrinks to nothing as soon as you put it ... See more
So are you surprised that everything in culture has a feeling of unreality right now? It’s like cotton candy that shrinks to nothing as soon as you put it ... See more
The public craves meaning and identity. From its perspective, late modern society, including government, exists to frustrate this desire.
Martin Gurri • Revolt of the Public and the Crisis of Authority in the New Millennium
In a culture that values productivity above all else, it is almost heretical to advocate for dreams and the imagination.
Toko-pa Turner • The Dreaming Way: Courting the Wisdom of Dreams
