Quotes About Society

Ser local en un mundo globalizado es una señal de penuria y degradación social.

The desire to demonize others is based on the ontological uncertainties.

Consumer freedom means orientation of life towards market-approved commodies and therefore precludes one crucial freedom: freedom from the market, freedom that means anything else but the choice between standard commercial products. Above all, consumer freedom successfully deflects aspirations of human liberty from communal affairs and the management of collective life.

A vida urbana é intrínseca e irremediavelmente ambivalente.

las ciudades se han convertido en el basurero de los problemas engendrados globalmente.

Cuando las autoridades son muchas, tienden a cancelarse entre sí, y la única autoridad efectiva es la de quien debe elegir entre ellas (...) las autoridades ya no mandan, sino que intentan congraciarse con los electores por medio de la tentación y la seducción.

It is because the moral economy has little need of the market that market forces are up in arms against it.

En la sociedad, nada puede declararse exento de la norma universal de la "desechabilidad" y nada puede permitirse perdurar más de lo debido.

En la sociedad de la información, es crucial la capacidad de protegerse de ese 99.99% de datos que uno no desea.

la vida social ya se ha transformado en una vida electrónica o cibervida

T]he existential setting that came to be known as the 'society of consumers' is distinguished by a remaking of interhuman relations on the pattern, and in the likeness, of the relations between consumers and the objects of their consumption.

Los miedos que acuciaban a la gente en otras épocas se diferencian de los nuestros en que, ahora, no existe relación alguna entre aquello que provoca el miedo y lo que hacemos para combatirlo.

La función de la cultura no consiste en satisfacer necesidades existentes sino en crear necesidades nuevas, mientras

Nosotros, mientras tanto, vivimos en una era de miedo, negatividad y malas noticias. Las buenas noticias no venden porque no interesan a nadie.

T]he secret of all successful 'socialization' is making individuals wish to do what is needed to enable the system to reproduce itself.

Moderne folkemord, liksom moderne kultur generelt, er gartnerarbeid.

The updated version of Descartes's Cogito is 'I am seen, therefore I am' – and that the more people who see me, the more I am…

Beneath the dream of fame, another dream, a dream of no longer dissolving and staying dissolved in the grey, faceless and insipid mass of commodities, a dream of turning into a notable, noticed and coveted commodity, a talked about commodity, a commodity standing out from the mass of commodities, a commodity impossible to overlook, to deride, to be dismissed. In a society of consumers, turning into a desirable commodity is the stuff of which dreams, and fairy tales, are made.

A consumerist attitude may lubricate the wheels of the economy; it sprinkles sand into the bearings of morality.

Precisar tornar-se o que já se é é a característica da vida moderna.

Russia's joy's in the bottle!

But it is well known that the bourgeois pater-familias was specially devised by Heaven to utter commonplaces and trivialities.

Anti-intellectualism is virtually our civic religion. Critical thinking may be a ubiquitous educational slogan—a vaguely defined skill we hope our children pick up on the way to adulthood—but the rewards for not using your intelligence are immediate and abundant.

Beneath the saccharine, air brushed girls-can-do-anything image is a ruthless contempt for women and girls who have not sold themselves to the right bidder by performing the neo-liberal strip tease of self-empowerment.