"My point, though, is that if lines have indeed shifted, it's not so much that the younger generation just doesn't care, it's that we have ceded more and more of our public life over to the private sector. If you grow up with advertising at school, you have come of age in a sold-out world."

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Source : Source: therumpus.net

Astra Taylor

#Growing Up Quotes #School Quotes #Age Quotes

“A writer is like a bag lady going through life with a sack and a pointed stick collecting stuff.”
“The responsibility of a writer is to excavate the experience of the people who produced him.”
“Enforced by genetics, sexual reproduction, perspective, and experience, the most manifest characteristic of human beings is their diversity. The freer an economy is, the more this human diversity of knowledge will be manifested. By contrast, political power originates in top-down processes-governments, monopolies, regulators, and elite institutions- all attempting to quell human diversity and impose order. Thus power always seeks centralization.”
“If an opportunity scares you, that's God's way of saying you should jump at it.”
“There is no data that can be displayed in a pie chart, that cannot be displayed BETTER in some other type of chart.”
“Learning to stand in somebody else's shoes, to see through their eyes, that's how peace begins. And it's up to you to make that happen. Empathy is a quality of character that can change the world.”
“We can only change the world if we have a heart for the world and deliver the message for the world. We can only change the world if we evangelize the world.”
“Luxury must have that over-the-top attitude but be effortless at the same time, that's what feels chic to me.”

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