Todd Gitlin

A century of convulsive change leaves huge demographic gouge marks. ↗

— Todd Gitlin

#change #convulsive #demographic #huge #leaves

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

#best #constitutional #features #futile #i

American movies and music deliver themes of freedom, innocence, and power that appeal to others - partly because America itself was put together out of a multiplicity of national traditions. ↗

— Todd Gitlin

#american #american movies #appeal #because #deliver

Americas are, for a variety of reasons, the most adept at producing the kind of entertainment that delivers easy satisfactions. ↗

— Todd Gitlin

#americas #delivers #easy #entertainment #kind

As I write at the end, if we step back and face the enormity of the torrent, then we have taken the first step to imagining what we might want to do about it. ↗

— Todd Gitlin

#back #end #enormity #face #first

Collectively, we are in thrall to media - because they deliver to us many of the psychic goods we crave, and we know no other way to live. ↗

— Todd Gitlin

#collectively #crave #deliver #goods #know

Human inertia makes the everyday environment, the furniture, as it were, appear to be a given. ↗

— Todd Gitlin

#environment #everyday #furniture #given #human

I don't think anyone in the media thinks strategically about society. ↗

— Todd Gitlin

#anyone #i #media #society #strategically

It's an old anarchist dream that people can take care of their own lives. ↗

— Todd Gitlin

#care #dream #lives #old #own

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 United States. ↗

— Todd Gitlin

#about #am #concerned #corporate #elite