{"quotes":[{"text":"The conservatives are fools: They whine about the decay of traditional values, yet they enthusiastically support technological progress and economic growth. Apparently it never occurs to them that you can't make rapid, drastic changes in the technology and the economy of a society without causing rapid changes in all other aspects of the society as well, and that such rapid changes inevitably break down traditional values.","author":"Theodore J. Kaczynski","tags":["change","conservatism","conservative","culture","democrat","economy","inconsistency","individual","industrialization","liberal","popular-culture","progressivism","reform","republican","society","technology","tradition","traditional","traditional-values"],"id":15911,"author_id":"Theodore+J.+Kaczynski"},{"text":"As individuals die every moment, how insensitive and fabricated a love it is to set aside a day from selfish routine in prideful, patriotic commemoration of tragedy. Just as God is provoked by those who tithe simply because they feel that they must tithe, I am provoked by those who commemorate simply because they feel that they must commemorate.","author":"Criss Jami","tags":["bandwagon","commemorate","commemoration","culture","day","death","fabrication","falsehood","god","holiday","honest","individual","insensitivity","insincere","love","lovelessness","memorial","memorial-day","memories","memory","nationalism","patriot","patriotic","patriotism","pop","pop-culture","popular","popular-culture","pride","routine","selfishness","society","tithe","tragedy","universal","vanity"],"id":41297,"author_id":"Criss+Jami"},{"text":"Women's liberation is one thing, but the permeation of anti-male sentiment in post-modern popular culture - from our mocking sitcom plots to degrading commercial story lines - stands testament to the ignorance of society. Fair or not, as the lead gender that never requested such a role, the historical male reputation is quite balanced. For all of their perceived wrongs, over centuries they've moved entire civilizations forward, nurtured the human quest for discovery and industry, and led humankind from inconvenient darkness to convenient modernity. Navigating the chessboard that is human existence is quite a feat, yet one rarely acknowledged in modern academia or media. And yet for those monumental achievements, I love and admire the balanced creation that is man for all his strengths and weaknesses, his gifts and his curses. I would venture to say that most wise women do.","author":"Tiffany Madison","tags":["culture","feminism","life","maleness","modernity","philosophy","popular-culture","postmodernism","western-civilization","wisdom","women-s-liberation"],"id":42027,"author_id":"Tiffany+Madison"},{"text":"Alice is fictional. This isn't.","author":"Jess C. Scott","tags":["american-culture","dark-humor","group-think","groupthink","lady-gaga","mad-magazine","parodies","parody","pop-culture","popular-culture","resident-evil","satire","sheeple","short-story","simpsons","south-park","zombie-apocalypse","zombies"],"id":45325,"author_id":"Jess+C.+Scott"},{"text":"Pop is about speaking everybody's language. The imagery and iconography we instantly recognize. When you can rely on things that the public already knows, you're dealing with Pop.","author":"Nuno Roque","tags":["art","artist","artist","artistic-expression","artistry","artists","artists","common-culture","contemporary-art","iconography","imagery","polyglots","polyglottery","pop","pop-art","pop-culture","popular-culture","universal-language"],"id":63019,"author_id":"Nuno+Roque"},{"text":"Indeed the very worst kind of man for a women to be in an intimate relationship with, often a truly dangerous man, is the one considered most sexy and desirable in the popular culture.","author":"Jean Kilbourne","tags":["bad-boy","masculinity","men","popular-culture"],"id":89174,"author_id":"Jean+Kilbourne"},{"text":"Border crossing' is a recurrent theme in all aspects of my work -- editing, writing, and painting. I'm interested in the various ways artists not only cross borders but also subvert them. In mythology, the old Trickster figure Coyote is a champion border crosser, mischievously dashing from the land of the living to the land of the dead, from the wilderness world of magic to the human world. He tears things down so they can be made anew. He's a rascal, but also a culture hero, dancing on borders, ignoring the rules, as many of our most innovative artists do. I'm particularly drawn to art that crosses the borders critics have erected between 'high art' and 'popular culture,' between 'mainstream' and 'genre,' or between one genre and another -- I love that moment of passage between the two; that place on the border where two worlds meet and energize each other, where Coyote enters and shakes things up. But I still have a great love for traditional fantasy, for Imaginary World, center-of-the-genre stories. I'm still excited by series books and trilogies if they're well written and use mythic tropes in interesting ways.","author":"Terri Windling","tags":["border-crossing","editing","fantasy","genre","magic","mainstream","popular-culture","reading","writing"],"id":140623,"author_id":"Terri+Windling"},{"text":"…Christianity will go. It will vanish and shrink. I don't know what will go first, rock 'n' roll or Christianity. We're more popular than Jesus now. Jesus was all right, but his disciples were thick and ordinary. It's them twisting it that ruins it for me.","author":"John Lennon","tags":["beatles","christianity","popular-culture","religion"],"id":148717,"author_id":"John+Lennon"},{"text":"In the imposition of a unitary and homogeneous popular culture, disseminated now throughout the world by the spread of Western technology and communications, is to be found one of the central features of modernity's distinctive way of achieving the priority of the one over the many. Homogeneity derives from the creation of an undifferentiated social or other reality...It is not therefore the priority of the many that distinguishes modernity from other cultures, but the shape the priority of the one takes in practice. Thus both the ancient and modern eras, in so far as they can be distinguished in the way often attempted, share in a tendency to elevate the one over the many: to enslave the many to the heteronomous rule of the one. The pathos of the modern condition is that, after rejecting what it rightly sees to be the oppressive forms of unity deriving from the past, it has itself succumbed to various false universals that replicate or even exacerbate the bondage from which it had hoped to free itself.","author":"Colin E. Gunton","tags":["homogeneity","modernity","popular-culture","technology"],"id":172758,"author_id":"Colin+E.+Gunton"},{"text":"He knows how to market himself well. Nowadays, that's all that seems to count. He's rebellious in a way that appeals to people with vain, shallow taste. So of course he manipulates his audiences with the blessing of his recording company and the financial investors behind his brand.","author":"Jess C. Scott","tags":["commercialism","commercialization","commercialized","corporate","corporate-culture","corporate-greed","fame","fame-and-fortune","greed","hype","marketing","mediocrity","music","popstars","popular","popular-culture","popularity","rebel","rebellion","shallow","shallow-apperances","shallowness","vain","vainglory","vanity"],"id":177403,"author_id":"Jess+C.+Scott"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":30,"pages":3,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}