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Modern society Quotes

"Whereas the Romans only persecuted Christians, modern man persecutes himself"

"The world is turning into this gigantic library of everything, and it is sometimes difficult to know what we are doing"

"Western culture has things a bit backward. We think that if we had every comfort available to us, we'd be happy"

"I think God's going to come down and pull civilization over for speeding."

"We are digital minds in an analog world."

"I think we are increasingly identifying with the visual because it is more immediate than corrective"

"Much of the social history of the Western world over the past three decades has involved replacing what worked with what sounded good"

"We are everlastingly in the world of objects; worse than that, we are objectified in objects. Humanity has become a production of artificial experiences and sensations."

"Today's youth are escaping real life more than ever"

"I'm an instant star. Just add water and stir."

"We live in an age when unnecessary things are our only necessities"

"In the 21st century, the peoples of the world"

"The irony of general-purpose technologies is that, before long, they become invisible and we take them for granted"

"I don’t think our Founding Fathers had the idea that some day we would all be driving around in armored escalades with military weapons in our cars."

"The difference between technology and slavery is that slaves are fully aware that they are not free"

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