Culture Quote by Max Richter

I'm opposed to a lot of the time that we as a civilization have come to spend looking at screens. For my money, life…

— Nick Offerman

We are capitalism made flesh.

— Mark Kingwell

You have the mainstream bourgeois life of the U.S., Europe, the "developed" world - the life of technology, education, mortgages, careers, a certain level…

— Ben Fountain

We are living in dystopia, in a world that is dominated by technology and disconnect, alienation, loneliness, and dysfunction.

— Steven Wilson

I feel like throughout history we've heard bullshit from politicians, but now we're at the perfect intersection of technology and entertainment where we can,…

— Morgan Spurlock

We've become increasingly addicted to consumption of goods that we don't produce ourselves, and a lot of the manufacturing has gone overseas.

— Jimmy Carter

We live in an era of consumerism and it's all about desire - based consumerism and it has nothing to do with things we…

— Aloe Blacc

You see a briefcase for business, a bookbag for education, a knife and gun for violence. Then there's government, law, media overall, and so…

— Mr. Lif

We're all simultaneously separated and connected by our devices, staring into our little screens, and also hungry for experience and community.

— Dani Shapiro

I do think that we're pretty future-obsessed right now, and I think that capitalism works best when we have a very short memory of…

— How to Dress Well

Time is our most precious currency. So it's significant that we are being encouraged, wherever possible, to think of our attention not as expenditure…

— Mohsin Hamid

We live in a world ruled by fictions of every kind - mass merchandising, advertising, politics conducted as a branch of advertising, the instant…

— J. G. Ballard