Who of us does not recognize that the life we live, however larded with brave talk about values and thought and ideals, is not actually a life dedicated to immersion in the endless torrent of images, songs, sounds and stories?
Right now, we have no possibility of politics because we have a one-party state. - Todd Gitlin
Right now, we have no possibility of politics because we have a one-party state.
- Todd Gitlin
Navigation is power of a limited sort - it enables us to manage the immensity of the media torrent. - Todd Gitlin
Navigation is power of a limited sort - it enables us to manage the immensity of the media torrent.
Like Americans, people outside America want fun, want an emotional compensation for the utilitarianism and calculation that mark the rest of their li… - Todd Gitlin
Like Americans, people outside America want fun, want an emotional compensation for the utilitarianism and calculation that mark the rest of their li…
America is not just 'a nation with the soul of a church,' as G.K. Chesterton wrote in 1992: it is a nation with the mind of a crusade - Todd Gitlin
America is not just 'a nation with the soul of a church,' as G.K. Chesterton wrote in 1992: it is a nation with the mind of a crusade
Some versions of patriotism come close to the tribal, which we all want to surpass, and some don’t. - Todd Gitlin
Some versions of patriotism come close to the tribal, which we all want to surpass, and some don’t.
If the Bible is a creation myth, it is an amorphous confusing one - Todd Gitlin
If the Bible is a creation myth, it is an amorphous confusing one
It's an old anarchist dream that people can take care of their own lives. - Todd Gitlin
It's an old anarchist dream that people can take care of their own lives.
All I will say is that there are particular features of the American constitutional system that renders a third party futile - at best. - Todd Gitlin
All I will say is that there are particular features of the American constitutional system that renders a third party futile - at best.
American movies and music deliver themes of freedom, innocence, and power that appeal to others - partly because America itself was put together out … - Todd Gitlin
American movies and music deliver themes of freedom, innocence, and power that appeal to others - partly because America itself was put together out …
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