Quotes about "Social Media & Online Culture"

My father was a diplomat for part of his life and I jumped from country to country and culture to culture. ”

It's been a concern of mine for years that the mainstream media coverage of culture and politics takes place in two nodes, Washington and New York, and yet all the voting goes on somewhere else. ”

The strange anthropological lesson of social media is that human beings, if given a choice, often prefer to socialize alone. ”

You know, one of these things that happened in the '60s and '70s was this confluence of, sort of, a counter-culture with computer culture. ”

The intellectual bourgeois of the old Empire - tepid and unimaginative, mentally slow, arrogant, and incorrectly trained - has proven his incapacity to be the bearer of German culture. His benumbed world is now toppled, its spirit is overthrown, and is in the midst of being recast into a new mold. ”

There is a crisis involving reading in certain communities. ”

Beyond being timely, an obituary has a more subjective duty: to assess its subject's impact. ”

You can't always count on the devices, attitudes, and conceits that stood you in good stead in 1972 or 1973, or 1978-79, to still have the same impact all these years later. ”

Conquest is the missionary of valor, and the hard impact of military virtues beats meanness out of the world. ”

Fans tend to get too excited by streaks of either kind and I think the press does too. There should be a happy medium. ”