"If mass media, social isolation in the suburbs,……" — Alex Steffen
"If mass media, social isolation in the suburbs, alienating workplaces and long car commutes create a bunker mentality, the Internet does the opposite."
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37 Quotes by Alex Steffen
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We get so little news about the developing world that we often forget that there are literally millions of people…
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We have to craft new political realities, not only in places like India, Afghanistan, Kenya, Pakistan, but here at home…
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By looking at climate change as a clean energy generation problem, we're setting ourselves up not to solve it.
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You don't change the world by hiding in the woods, wearing a hair shirt, or buying indulgences in the form…
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Urban retrofitting: creating different sorts of spaces and uses out of places that are already there.
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It's not just enough to survive. We've got to make something better than what we've got.
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Optimism is a political act. Those who benefit from the status quo are perfectly happy for us to think nothing…
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There is no such thing as garbage, just useful stuff in the wrong place.
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To be young and aware is to know you’re being lied to; to know that a bright green future is…
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Powerful people doing bad things LIKE cynical, despairing citizens.
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There's more to being an environmentalist than occasionally signing an online petition and mailing your check to the Sierra Club.…
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Carbon zero simply means that the emissions you are releasing either are zero or balance out to zero.
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More Alienating Quotes
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I find capitalism repugnant. It is filthy, it is gross, it is alienating... because it causes war, hypocrisy and competition.
— Fidel Castro
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The only feasible solution is a political reconciliation... Mr. President, the time is now to put pressure on the Iraqi…
— Mike Coffman
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We should be in the business of protecting cherished institutions and our cultural heritage, otherwise what, I ask, is a…
— Edward Leigh
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I wanted to start a website for teenaged girls that was not kind of this one-dimensional strong character empowerment thing,…
— Tavi Gevinson
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Our equal and opposite needs for solitude and community constitute a great paradox. When it is torn apart, both of…
— Parker J. Palmer
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There are subtle ways and overt ways of alienating a child from a parent, but either way it's evil
— Dennis Prager
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I do think that the badmouthing and alienating of a child from a parent is one of the few unforgivable…
— Dennis Prager
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If the majority of the "spiritual market" is drawn to prerational magic and myth, how do you reach the small…
— Ken Wilber
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School prepares for the alienating institutionalization of life by teaching the need to be taught. Once this lesson is learned, people…
— Ivan Illich
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Too much of what led up to the crisis in the old bubble days—the conspicuous consumption, the latter-day Gatsbyism—was fueled…
— Richard Florida
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Hollywood films are alienating to the spectator because they use too much dialogue, too much explication and leave no space…
— Bruno Dumont
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Sometimes we get frustrated ourselves and decide it's time to download a big chunk of mythology. And then the audience…
— Damon Lindelof
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