Quotes About Cultural shift

The principles of true hip-hop have been forsaken, It's all contractual and about money makin'.

We have to change our culture so you can create wealth from making things and don't just try to make money out of money

Europeans used to be proud to be the advanced form of democracy. Now they're definitely a little bit ashamed because we are seeing that finally, the bond that we had, it was money.

Dublin was turning into Disneyland with super-pubs, a Purgatory open till five in the morning.

I've seen country music go uptown, like we say, and I'm proud I was there when it happened.

When we moved back to the US, folk music was all the rage. So I traded in my banjo for a guitar.

Now that the generation that grew up on '80s indie-rock has attained influential positions in the culture, that music is the new yardstick. And that will shift yet again some day.

Someone like Mozart moves from Salzburg to Vienna, where all of the sudden he finds this musical city that is not only asking for music, it's demanding music of him.

In traditional societies, nature was seen as one's wife, but the modern West turned it into a prostitute.

The whole cable-TV original programming just changed the nature of television.

Terrible times in which priests no longer merit the praise of poets and in which poets have not yet begun to be priests.

More people than ever are slowly but surely turning their ears toward poetry

Every person has only so much attention to give, and politics and government takes up only a fraction of what it did 25 years ago.

In modern time slowness is new sickness.

The culture of the Old West, if it ever really did exist, had been tamed and replaced by the uniformity of the Walmart–strip mall–McDonald's homogenizing of America. It was happening in Minnesota, too. Hell, it was happening everywhere in the world.

Abilene had gone from boomtown to Bible Belt, from whorehouses to schoolmarms, without any of the intervening phases.

As music becomes less of a thing--a cylinder, a cassette, a disc--and more ephemeral, perhaps we will begin to assign an increasing value to live performances again.

In our postmodern culture which is TV dominated, image sensitive, and morally vacuous, personality is everything and character is increasingly irrelevant.

As American conservatives have felt the ebb of cultural power away from them, they have come to feel watched and judged. They do not like it. "How does it feel to be a problem?" memorably asked W. E. B. Du Bois.

What he neglects to mention is that in 1956 she abandoned the Yanomami to seek her natal family and live again in 'Western civilization,' only to find herself in a state of occasional hunger and constant dejection and loneliness. After a while, given the ability to make a fully informed decision, Helena Valero decided she preferred life among the Yanomami, and returned to live with them.27

God tipped the country and all the fruits and nuts rolled west.

What can you say about a society that says God is dead and Elvis is alive?

Oh, sure. Of course, they say now that we've got Freud and the motorcar, God is dead." "He's not dead; just very tired.

It is no coincidence that the Western attraction to sublime landscapes developed at precisely the moment when traditional beliefs in God began to wane.