Quotes About Society

As William Gibson, who coined the term "cyberspace," has said: "The future is already here—it is just unevenly distributed.

Hay algo muy raro en una sociedad en la que toda la gente con más talento es guiada hacia los mismos centros de elite, donde acaban estudiando la misma cantidad reducida de asignaturas y llegando a un mismo número reducido de carreras.

Las reglas de sentido común del «mundo real» son una frágil colección de ilusiones reforzadas por la sociedad.

so many bad ideas that lead to authoritarian consequences begin with good intentions.

Homo Deus: A Brief History of

Art Is Socialism, but Life Is Capitalism "My wife made the observation that everyone's equal on stage, but off stage, they're completely unequal." Mike wrote down, "Art is socialism but life is capitalism," and that became a guiding principle for his film Don't Think Twice.

Understanding Media by Marshall McLuhan.

To read Thucydides is to see our own world in microcosm. It's the study of how democracies destroy themselves by breaking down into warring factions, the Few versus the Many. Hoi polloi in Greek means "the many." Oligoi means "the few.

Marc es autor de la obra Los delitos del futuro (Ariel, 2015).

Cualquier cosa de Kevin Kelly, la más reciente es The Inevitable.

The culture of news is a culture without nuance.

El sentimiento de culpa [es] interesante porque la culpa es lo contrario del prestigio,

The Point of Journalism Is the Truth "The point of journalism is the truth. The point of journalism is not to improve society. There are things, there are facts, there are truths that actually feel regressive, but it doesn't matter, because the point of journalism isn't to make everything better. It's to give people accurate information about how things are.

America is replicated at every level of British life, from the taxi driver to the prime minister.

Except for its worst inner-city slums, America is not the primitive capitalist jungle of European imagination, where human beings slink away like wounded animals to die in bloodstained holes.

There are people who own cars and are getting free cell phones. A car helps one find a job, too. Where do you draw the line?

The Italians were getting so accustomed to tragedies and disasters that their appetite for sensation was becoming jaded.

One of the many curious aspects of American culture is the absence of an "upper" class, a "high" society, an hedonic aristocracy. America since Lincoln has been a heavy, feet-on-the-ground John Wayne society. The triumph of mediocrity and practicality.

Sociologist Douglas Massey has shown that as racial segregation has diminished, class-based segregation has increased in America.

The early primary results show that Trump Country is made up of the places where civil society has eroded the most. Trump's cities and towns and counties are the ones where community bonds are the weakest.

To be frank, I suspect that today there is little respect for Christianity as source of moral teaching about goodness.

What is truth?" Sometimes people ask this question because they wish to do nothing. Generic cynicism makes us feel hip and alternative even as we slip along with our fellow citizens into a morass of indifference. It is your ability to discern facts that makes you an individual, and our collective trust in common knowledge that makes us a society.

The politics of inevitability is a self-induced intellectual coma. So

But without the conformists, the great atrocities would have been impossible.