Todd Gitlin Quotes

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• There is a fuzzy but real distinction that can and I believe should be made, between patriotism, which is attachment to a way of life,…
• My business is the analytical framework.
• Human inertia makes the everyday environment, the furniture, as it were, appear to be a given.
• American movies and music deliver themes of freedom, innocence, and power that appeal to others - partly because America itself was put together out of…
• The mobilisation which Bush has been able to perform since 11 September 2001 has to be fought - at least by Americans - in the…
• Some versions of patriotism come close to the tribal, which we all want to surpass, and some don't.
• The genius of the economic machine is in its ability to convert these indulgences into profitability. It converts desire into attention, a grip on our…
• Some fine day, Democrats may figure out how to get on the right side of the value divide - how to define America as a…
• Right now, we have no possibility of politics because we have a one-party state.
• I am concerned about how to reverse the process by which a fundamentalist right and a corporate elite were able to seize power in the…
• I am a realist as well as an idealist, and I think that it is incumbent upon those of us in opposition to try to…
• A century of convulsive change leaves huge demographic gouge marks.
• All I will say is that there are particular features of the American constitutional system that renders a third party futile - at best.
• Americas are, for a variety of reasons, the most adept at producing the kind of entertainment that delivers easy satisfactions.
• Collectively, we are in thrall to media - because they deliver to us many of the psychic goods we crave, and we know no other…
• I don't think anyone in the media thinks strategically about society.
• It's an old anarchist dream that people can take care of their own lives.
• Mills insisted that a sociologist's proper subject was the intersection of biography and history.
• Navigation is power of a limited sort - it enables us to manage the immensity of the media torrent.
• So American culture is itself a hybrid and lends itself to use in other people's hybrids.

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