{"quotes":[{"text":"Our current modes of rationality are not moving society forward into a better world. They are taking it further and further from that better world. Since the Renaissance these modes have worked. As long as the need for food, clothing and shelter is dominant they will continue to work. But now that for huge masses of people these needs no longer overwhelm everything else, the whole structure of reason, handed down to us from ancient times, is no longer adequate. It begins to be seen for what it really is...Emotionally hollow, esthetically meaningless and spiritually empty. That, today, is where it is at, and will continue to be at for a long time to come.","author":"Robert M. Pirsig","tags":["21st-century","american-culture","american-society","food-for-thought","modern-problems","philosophy"],"id":2705,"author_id":"Robert+M.+Pirsig"},{"text":"Give as much as importance to your goal as you give it to your first girlfriend, with that much importance your girlfriend might still leave you but your goal will definitely come to you.","author":"Amit Kalantri","tags":["21st-century","21st-century","better-half","certain","definite","definitely","dream","dreams","girl","girlfriend","goal","goals","human","humans","importance","important","important-things","important-things-in-life","inspiration","inspirational","inspirational","leave","leaving","main-squeeze","modern","modern","modern","modernity","motivation","motivational","motivational","partner","philosophy","targets","vision","wisdom","wisdom"],"id":19958,"author_id":"Amit+Kalantri"},{"text":"Give as much as importance to your goal as you give it to your first girlfriend, with that much importance your girlfriend might still leave you but your goal will definitely come to you.","author":"Amit Kalantri","tags":["21st-century","21st-century","better-half","certain","definite","definitely","dream","dreams","girl","girlfriend","goal","goals","human","humans","importance","important","important-things","important-things-in-life","inspiration","inspirational","inspirational","leave","leaving","main-squeeze","modern","modern","modern","modernity","motivation","motivational","motivational","partner","philosophy","targets","vision","wisdom","wisdom"],"id":19958,"author_id":"Amit+Kalantri"},{"text":"Fatally, the term 'barbarian' is the password that opens up the archives of the twentieth century. It refers to the despiser of achievement, the vandal, the status denier, the iconoclast, who refuses to acknowledge any ranking rules or hierarchy. Whoever wishes to understand the twentieth century must always keep the barbaric factor in view. Precisely in more recent modernity, it was and still is typical to allow an alliance between barbarism and success before a large audience, initially more in the form of insensitive imperialism, and today in the costumes of that invasive vulgarity which advances into virtually all areas through the vehicle of popular culture. That the barbaric position in twentieth-century Europe was even considered the way forward among the purveyors of high culture for a time, extending to a messianism of uneducatedness, indeed the utopia of a new beginning on the clean slate of ignorance, illustrates the extent of the civilizatory crisis this continent has gone through in the last century and a half - including the cultural revolution downwards, which runs through the twentieth century in our climes and casts its shadow ahead onto the twenty-first.","author":"Peter Sloterdijk","tags":["20th-century","21st-century","barbarian","barbaric","barbarism","civilization","iconoclast","ignorance","twentieth-century","vandal","vulgar","vulgarity"],"id":27025,"author_id":"Peter+Sloterdijk"},{"text":"Cell phones are certainly not necessary, and 'but I'm from the digital age, this is what everyone in my generation is doing!' isn't a very good excuse for being hooked on a glowing screen 24/7. In the 1960's every teen of the times was tripping on acid and running off to find themselves in communes and love buses. It was a fad, there was no excuse for it and it passed, just like I think that this generation's 'cell phones are necessary for socialization' fad will eventually pass. What will it bring afterwards? I don't even want to know, but I'll keep my fingers crossed and hope that it isn't anything else digital.","author":"Rebecca McNutt","tags":["21st-century","acid","cell-phone","digital","drugs","excuse","fad","generation","hippie","immaturity","lazy","peace","sheep","technology","text","tripping"],"id":49504,"author_id":"Rebecca+McNutt"},{"text":"In modern times, beauty is more trusted than goodness.","author":"Amit Kalantri","tags":["21st-century","amit-kalantri","amit-kalantri","beautiful","beauty","goodness","human","humans","inspiration","inspirational","inspirational","modern","modern-times","motivation","motivational","motivational","philosophy","trust","trusted","wisdom","wisdom"],"id":56365,"author_id":"Amit+Kalantri"},{"text":"Almost every time I speak to teenagers, particularly young female students who want to talk to me about feminism, I find myself staggered by how much they have read, how creatively they think and how curiously bullshit-resistant they are. Because of the subjects I write about, I am often contacted by young people and I see it as a part of my job to reply to all of them - and doing so has confirmed a suspicions I’ve had for some time. I think that the generation about to hit adulthood is going to be rather brilliant.Young people getting older is not, in itself, a fascinating new cultural trend. Nonetheless the encroaching adulthood and the people who grew up in a world where expanding technological access collided with the collapse of the neoliberal economic consensus is worth paying attention to. Because these kids are smart, cynical and resilient, and I don’t mind saying that they scare me a little.","author":"Laurie Penny","tags":["21st-century","book","books","feminism","generation","intelligence","our-generation","read","reading","smart","wise","women"],"id":60712,"author_id":"Laurie+Penny"},{"text":"We have reached the end of one era, and now we don't know what is all around us. Because we're already in a new era, and it is very different from the old one. Science and the world of technology are both changing everything so quickly, even our bodies. So the original ancient culture was present here, but to no avail, at this point in history it has come to stop. It still has some effect, some kind of continuity, but it cannot analyse and reformulate things, it cannot impact things with absolute strength. The age to follow will be full of dangers. It will be full of difficulties. In all likelihood, it will not be a good future for mankind. It is even possible this new era will mean the end of mankind.","author":"László Krasznahorkai","tags":["21st-century","culture","end-times","outlook","pessimism","predictions","the-future","warnings"],"id":67247,"author_id":"L%C3%A1szl%C3%B3+Krasznahorkai"},{"text":"What goes up, must come down.' Well, Issac Newton's law doesn't apply to the internet. That's what people don't realize. When you put something up, as long as there is an internet there will be that same stuff. When you're a senior citizen, what you uploaded to Facebook at a high school party will still be there. Whatever you upload to the internet, no matter how strong your passwords and security are, guaranteed the government or some advertising corporation will look at what you post someday. The only law that applies to the internet is, 'For every reaction, there is an equal and opposite reaction.' Post a photograph and you'll get attention. Post your old scanned Kodak slides and family home movies, you'll get a nostalgia rush and you'll reunite people with better days. But post a bad thing, thinking you can go unnoticed, and you'll never be able to crawl out from underneath it.","author":"Rebecca McNutt","tags":["21st-century","cell-phone","computer","corporation","digital","facebook","fun","government","gravity","home-movie","internet","issac-newton","kodak","law","photo","police","post","scary","science","senior-citizen","social-media","twitter","youtube"],"id":76203,"author_id":"Rebecca+McNutt"},{"text":"Soon, nobody was leaving their cubicles to talk anymore, and we were either e-mailing each other random thoughts or scheduling meetings, or speaking over an instant message chat.","author":"Christopher Herz","tags":["21st-century","electronics","reality"],"id":80531,"author_id":"Christopher+Herz"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":57,"pages":6,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}