{"quotes":[{"text":"This is what made the difference, they used social networking for entertainment and I used it for business.","author":"Amit Kalantri","tags":["business","corporate","human","humans","inspiration","inspirational","inspirational","making-a-difference","marketing","modern","modern","modern-society","modernism","modernity","motivation","motivational","motivational","philosophy","social-network","social-networking","social-networks","wisdom","wisdom"],"id":2944,"author_id":"Amit+Kalantri"},{"text":"You swallow hard when you discover that the old coffee shop is now a chain pharmacy, that the place where you first kissed so-and-so is now a discount electronics retailer, that where you bought this very jacket is now rubble behind a blue plywood fence and a future office building. Damage has been done to your city. You say, ''It happened overnight.'' But of course it didn't. Your pizza parlor, his shoeshine stand, her hat store: when they were here, we neglected them. For all you know, the place closed down moments after the last time you walked out the door. (Ten months ago? Six years? Fifteen? You can't remember, can you?) And there have been five stores in that spot before the travel agency. Five different neighborhoods coming and going between then and now, other people's other cities. Or 15, 25, 100 neighborhoods. Thousands of people pass that storefront every day, each one haunting the streets of his or her own New York, not one of them seeing the same thing.","author":"Colson Whitehead","tags":["chain-stores","change","consumerism","individuality","loss","memories","modern-society","mom-and-pop-stores","neighborhoods","new-york-city","retail","transience"],"id":6042,"author_id":"Colson+Whitehead"},{"text":"People always knock what's new but I love the modern Internet, where cleverness is currency. Social media is a cleverness meritocracy. We're living in it.","author":"Alexei Maxim Russell","tags":["clever","cleverness","currency","future","internet","internet-marketing","marketing","marketing","merit","meritocracy","modern","modern-life","modern-society","social-media"],"id":11212,"author_id":"Alexei+Maxim+Russell"},{"text":"Where affluence is the rule, the true threat is the loss of desire.(...) What is new is not that prosperity depends on stimulating demand. It is that it cannot continue without inventing new vices.","author":"John Gray","tags":["economic-collapse","modern-society","progress"],"id":17776,"author_id":"John+Gray"},{"text":"According to the prevailing notion, freedom manifests as “preference-satisfying behavior.” About the preferences themselves we are to maintain a principled silence, out of deference to the autonomy of the individual. They are said to express the authentic core of the self, and are for that reason unavailable for rational scrutiny. But this logic would seem to break down when our preferences are the object of massive social engineering, conducted not by government “nudgers” but by those who want to monetize our attention.","author":"Matthew B. Crawford","tags":["attention","modern-society"],"id":22262,"author_id":"Matthew+B.+Crawford"},{"text":"We have created a manic world nauseous with the pursuit of material wealth. Many also bear their cross of imagined deprivation, while their fellow human beings remain paralyzed by real poverty. We drown in the thick sweetness of our sensual excess, and our shameless opulence, while our discontent souls suffocate in the arid wasteland of spiritual deprivation.","author":"Anthon St. Maarten","tags":["buying","consumer-culture","consumerism","consumption","deprivation","desert","despair","emptiness","excess","happiness","happiness-fulfillment-desire","material-possessions","material-world","materialism","materialism-versus-spiritualism","materialistic","materialistic-society","meaning-of-life","meaning-of-things","meaninglessness","modern-life","modern-society","money-happiness","money-not-happiness","nausea","nihilism","nihilistic","opulence","poverty","pursuit-of-happiness","self-inflicted-pain","soul-searching","soulless","spending","spiritual-development","spiritual-growth","spiritual-life","spiritual-wisdom","spirituality","suffocate","wastefulness","wasteland","wealth","wealth-and-virtues","wealth-of-soul"],"id":31931,"author_id":"Anthon+St.+Maarten"},{"text":"The important question of how poverty can be remedied is one which agitates and torments modern societies especially.","author":"Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel","tags":["modern-society","poverty"],"id":41311,"author_id":"Georg+Wilhelm+Friedrich+Hegel"},{"text":"With approximately 50% of the USA population on prescription drugs and 10% on anti-depressants, it is clear that things are going seriously wrong with human health in the modern world.","author":"Steven Magee","tags":["depressant","depression","depression","health","human","human-development","humanity","humanity-and-society","modern","modern-life","modern-society","modern-times","modern-world","population","prescription","prescription-drugs","prescription-medicines","usa","world"],"id":46709,"author_id":"Steven+Magee"},{"text":"The difference between technology and slavery is that slaves are fully aware that they are not free.","author":"Nassim Nicholas Taleb","tags":["internet-addiction","modern-life","modern-society","modernity","modernity-is-a-sickness","slavery","technology-addiction","technology-enchantment"],"id":50576,"author_id":"Nassim+Nicholas+Taleb"},{"text":"Superficiality is the curse of the modern world.","author":"Matthew Kelly","tags":["life","modern-society","p91","truth","wisdom"],"id":51023,"author_id":"Matthew+Kelly"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":50,"pages":5,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}