Quotes About Cultural shift

In our secular society, school has become the replacement for church, and like church it requires that its teachings must be taken on faith.

TV has had a stronger impact on our society than any single invention since the automobile. It has put the dead hand on conversation.

When one historical period is replaced by another, there is always a group of people left over from the old society

All crosses had their tops cut and became T's. There was also a thing called God.

In the West, the phone had become a drug even more addictive than opioids. In a culture becoming ever more secular,

When my father arrived in Kenya, he had found the Kikuyu way of life similar to that of the British at the time the Romans invaded England 2,000 years ago.

I've got nothing against records - I've spent my life making them - but they are a kind of historical blip.

We have become a society of people that loves to blame someone else for our condition.

Hippopotamus, As the leaves fall to the ground Mechs now leave Japan

Shit," Clutch said after a few minutes. "The high-def has totally ruined porn. Are those ingrown hairs?

Wow, if Portlanders could do that to a biker, they could turn anyone into a hipster.

Look,' he said, 'they are just Germans who had Communism for forty years and went backwards, and all they want now is the money to have big TV sets and holidays in Majorca like everyone else. It was an experiment and it failed.

the real revolution for this century "would be to stop seeing the home as a gendered space" but rather as both a male and female domain, just as we now see the workplace.

Et rien ne peut faire que ce qui a été vécu dans un monde, celui d'avant 1968, et condamné par les règles de ce monde, puisse changer radicalement de sens dans un autre monde. Cela reste un événement sexuel singulier, dont la honte est insoluble dans la doxa du nouveau siècle.

J'allais aux cours de littérature et de sociologie, au restau U, je buvais des cafés midi et soir à la Faluche, le bar réservé aux étudiants. Je n'étais plus dans le même monde. Il y avait les autres filles, avec leurs ventres vides, et moi.

Est-ce que le prince Charles était réel pour moi ? Dîner royal, musique. Je pensais que cette « entente cordiale » du vieux monde serait peut-être un jour balayée par d'autres forces. Je songeais à l'URSS, à la Chine. Peut-être étions-nous semblables hier soir à ces gens de 1913 ou de 1938, dans ces mêmes salons dorés.

I was a kid at the end of the 1960s and in the early 1970s, so a lot of things changed. You had pop music coming up, with David Bowie, you had new television programmes and all these things. I was fascinated.

The ideal American type is perfectly expressed by the Protestant, individualist, anti-conformist, and this is the type that is in the process of disappearing. In reality there are few left.

There were no more wise men; there were no more heroes;

A good man is hard to find," Red Sammy said. "Everything is getting terrible. I remember the day you could go off and leave your screen door unlatched. Not no more.

The formality that is left in the South now is quite dead and done for of course.

Ragtime was a fanfare for the 20th century.

I was born in the 1980s, so learning about the late 1960s was really fascinating, not only just because of the way things looked and sounded but because of what was going on in society at that time.

But from what I can see all around me today, that America is fading fast, if it's not already gone.