#cult

Self-governing cultures both inspire alignment and eject elements that don't fit in. ↗

— Dov Seidman

#business

Once upon a time there were mass media, and they were wicked, of course, and there was a guilty party. Then there were the virtuous voices that accused the criminals. And Art (ah, what luck!) offered alternatives, for those who were not prisoners to the mass media. Well, it's all over. We have to start again from the beginning, asking one another what's going on. ↗

— Umberto Eco

#culture #mass-media #superficiality #art

Art indeed may not change anything, and yet on some very basic level, life is insupportable without it. ↗

— Richard Matturro

#beauty #culture #life #meaning #spiritual

A lifelong movie I already knew the ending to ↗

— Jason Najum

#essay #memoir #pop-culture #movies

Switching to all organic food production is the single most critical (and most doable) action we can take right now to stop our climate crisis. ↗

— Maria Rodale

#climate-change #diet #nutrition #organic #change

If you have to ask what jazz is you will never know." Louis Armstrong ↗

— Louis Armstrong

#music #music

Art is the bridge across the gap between peoples and cultures. Writing is one of the arts that can help link people. ↗

— Charles Ray

#culture #storytelling #writing #art

There is genuine Hip Hop; a message that connects, rocks a crowd, and motivates a people and then there is what is left... instead of Hip Hop we have Hip replacement. ↗

— Johnnie Dent Jr.

#rap-music #youth-culture #motivational

Culture had worked in her own case, but during the last few weeks she had doubted whether it humanized the majority, so wide and so widening is the gulf that stretches between the natural and the philosophic man, so many the good chaps who are wrecked in trying to cross it. ↗

— E.M. Forster

#philosophy #nature

Language by its very nature is naive,we make it complex and naughty. We make it look and sound like what it is not. ↗

— Nahiyan bin Asadullah

#nature