When we think of memetic culture, it is the sausage factory of the old days.
With all that we hear of American hustle and hurry, it is rather strange that Americans seem to like to linger on longer words.
Better than anything else in our culture, it enables fathers and sons to speak on a level playing field while building up from within a personal history of shared experience - a group history - that may be tapped into at will in years to come.
We are all born into families and cultures we didn't choose, given names we didn't pick, instructed in behaviour and values we might not have freely chosen, and too often we end up expected to live lives designed by others.
John Akers once said that changing IBM's culture was more difficult than getting elephants to dance. Of course it's really difficult, as Lou Gerstner also found out years later. The title of his own book is Who Says Elephants Can't Dance? He and his top executives were change masters at IBM. All organizations, especially the larger ones, will always need change masters. Dissatisfaction with the status quo and efforts to improve it should be encouraged rather than discouraged. Regrettably, that is often not the case.
Each civilization has its own kind of pestilence and can control it only by reforming itself.
A football team represents a way of being, a culture.
Culture's worth huge, huge risks. Without culture we're all totalitarian beasts.
Copyright protects corporate monopoly rights over culture and provides much of the profits to media conglomeratesm encouraging the wholesale privatization of our common culture.
American officials have bent over backwards to show how sensitive they are to Muslim culture. It didn't seem very effective. They seem to be worried about winning the respect of other people.
If comparison is the thief of joy, then our culture is being robbed blind.
I saw Elvis live in '54. It was at the Big D Jamboree in Dallas and the first thing, he came out and spit on the stage. . . it affected me exactly the same way as when I first saw that David Lynch film. There was just no reference point in the culture to compare it to.
It is no exaggeration to say that since the 1980s, much of the global financial sector has become criminalised, creating an industry culture that tolerates or even encourages systematic fraud. The behaviour that caused the mortgage bubble and financial crisis of 2008 was a natural outcome and continuation of this pattern, rather than some kind of economic accident.
Well, the most important thing about Islam is that we have to differentiate between two kinds of Islam. The first one is the institution of Islam. . . second, the culture of Islam.
Eight Hours For What We Will is a major contribution to modern American working-class history and to the history of a changing American popular and mass culture.
Foreign culture is as necessary to the spirit of a nation as is foreign commerce to its industries.
Standing still is never an option so long as inequities remain embedded in the very fabric of the culture.
Youth culture adopts Armani and adapts it in its own way, as befits youthful enthusiasm.
Only a humanity to whom death has become as indifferent as its members, that has itself died, can inflict it administratively on innumerable people.
We live in a youth-obsessed, aesthetically obsessed culture. That is no more evident than in the film industry.