"The commercial media are to the mental environment what factories are to the physical environment"

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Source : Kalle Lasn (2013). “Culture Jam: How to Reverse America's Suicidal Consumer Binge--any Why We Must”, p.18, Harper Collins

Kalle Lasn

#Media Quotes #Environment Quotes #Factories Quotes

“Back when we were first making records, you didn't just make the music, you put a great deal of energy into the way it looked, and every word that was written on the whole thing.”
“I was - in this magazine, it referred to me as "political parrot." And I thought, "That's the best you can come up with, really?" Okay, and I think it made fun of something I was wearing. But that does happen, and it happens a lot with female journalists, folks.”
“Try harder every day to be better than the day before.”
“Education, the great mumbo jumbo and fraud of the age purports to equip us to live and is prescribed as a universal remedy for everything from juvenile delinquency to premature senility.”
“If Tal would learn to program himself properly, then it would become quite impossible to play against him.”
“As I had once done thus in my breaking away from my Parents, so I could not be content now, but I must go and leave the happy View I had of being a rich and thriving Man in my new Plantation, only to pursue a rash and immoderate Desire of rising faster than the Nature of the Thing admitted; and thus I cast my self down again into the deepest Gulph of human Misery that ever Man fell into, or perhaps could be consistent with Life and a State of Health in the World.”
“It is as hard to see one's self as to look backwards without turning around.”
“External scouting is of limited value if it's not teamed with rigorous self- examination. Successful coaches or managers have learned the value of utilizing an outside opinion to give them a fresh look at their personnel. This unbiased view provides an even greater insight, which in turn helps the coach develop flexibility within the team.”

Source : Source: bobmorris.biz

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