List Of 8+ Mass Culture Quotes

Reading Is One Of The True Pleasures Of Life. In Our Age Of Mass Culture, When So Much That We Encounter Is Abridged,adapted, Adulterated, Shredded, And Boiled Down, It Is Mind-easing And Mind-inspiring To Sit Down Privately With A Congenial Book.

The Kind Of People Who Can Assemble Huge Crowds Into One Spot Will Be The Major Influences On Mass Culture In The Next Decade. The Rock Enthusiasts Have Created Some Of The Most Exciting Theatrical Events On The Planet.

Our Society Offers Little In The Way Of Reeducation For Those Who Have Been Torn Away From Their Traditional Culture And Suddenly Exposed To All The Blandishments Of Mass Culture-even The Churches Which Follow The Hillbillies To The City Often Make Use Of The Same "hard Sell" That The Advertisers And Politicians Do.

The Neo-conservative Critics Of Leftist Critics Of Mass Culture Ridicule The Protest Against Bach As Background Music In The Kitchen, Against Plato And Hegel, Shelley And Baudelaire, Marx And Freud In The Drugstore. Instead, They Insist On Recognition Of The Fact That The Classics Have Left The Mausoleum And Come To Life Again, That People Are Just So Much More Educated. True, But Coming To Life As Classics, They Come To Life As Other Than Themselves; They Are Deprived Of Their Antagonistic Force, Of The Estrangement Which Was The Very Dimension Of Their Truth.

Detachment Is The Prerogative Of An Elite; And As The Dandy Is The Nineteenth Century's Surrogate For The Aristocrat In Matters Ofculture, So Camp Is The Modern Dandyism. Camp Is The Answer To The Problem: How To Be A Dandy In The Age Of Mass Culture.

The Hard Truth Is That What May Be Acceptable In Elite Culture May Not Be Acceptable In Mass Culture, That Tastes Which Pose Only Innocent Ethical Issues As The Property Of A Minority Become Corrupting When They Become More Established. Taste Is Context, And The Context Has Changed.

A Steady Diet Of Mass Culture Is A Form Of Deprivation.

Television Is Completely Another Medium. For Me, Lady Gaga And Hbo Are Bringing Us To Mass Culture.