"Grunge was so self-consciously lowbrow and nonaspirational that……" — Douglas Rushkoff
"Grunge was so self-consciously lowbrow and nonaspirational that it seemed, at first, impervious to the hype and glamour normally applied swiftly to any emerging trend. But sure enough, grunge anthems found their way onto the soundtracks of television commercials, and Dodge Neons were hawked by kids in flannel shirts saying, 'Whatever.'"
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135 Quotes by Douglas Rushkoff
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Our digital experiences are out of body. This biases us toward depersonalised behaviour in an environment where one’s identity can…
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It's also hard for people to contend with the difficult possibility that we are simply overadvanced fungi and bacteria hurtling…
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Corporations [gained] direct access to what we may think of as our humanity, emotions, and agency but, in this context,…
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Our society has reoriented itself to the present moment. Everything is live, real time, and always-on. It’s not a mere…
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The plague did not lead to Europe’s economic collapse. Rather, Europe’s currency-driven economic collapse led to the plague.
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Our enthusiasm for digital technology about which we have little understanding and over which we have little control leads us…
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Digiphrenia”—the way our media and technologies encourage us to be in more than one place at the same time.
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The outsourcing of our memory to machines expands the amount of data to which we have access, but degrades our…
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If we stop believing in a future, if we stop doing things for something else but start doing them for…
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It may be decades until we know what living in a state of constant distraction will do to us,
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More than anything, rave was an intentionally designed experience. The music, lighting, and ambience were all fine-tuned to elicit and…
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Ecstacy stripped away the user's inhibitions to self-expression. On E, lies are inefficient, and the peculiarities or weaknesses they are…
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More Anthem Quotes
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Anytime I sing the anthem, it is an honor and my heart beats out of my chest.
— Luke Bryan
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I've never been more nervous in my life than singing the national anthem at the Super Bowl.
— Kelly Clarkson
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I knew we were in for a long season when we lined up for the national anthem on opening day…
— Jim Leyland
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I looked up and saw my flag. But I didn't hear my anthem. The quotation above from 6 ft 4…
— Unknown Author
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We're going to be the best in the league at something. We're deep in anthem singers.
— Barry Trotz
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The only way you can check Gretzky is to hit him when he is standing still singing the national anthem.
— Harry Sinden
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I can't claim to know the words of all the national anthems in the world, but I don't know of…
— Ronald Reagan
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Twenty centuries of 'progress' have brought the average citizen a vote, a national anthem, a Ford, a bank account, and…
— Aldo Leopold
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The national anthem of hell is, "I Did It My Way."
— Peter Kreeft
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Is not nationalism - that devotion to a flag, an anthem, a boundary so fierce it engenders mass murder -…
— Howard Zinn
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...Surely, we must renounce nationalism and all its symbols: its flags, its pledges of allegiance, its anthems, its insistence in…
— Howard Zinn
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If America is destroyed, it may be by Americans who salute the flag, sing the national anthem, march in patriotic…
— Ezra Taft Benson
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