Culture

The next revolution - World War III - will be waged inside your head. It will be a guerrilla information war fought not in the sky or on the streets, not in the forests or even around the scarce resources of the earth, but in newspapers and magazines, on the radio, TV and in "cyberspace". It will be a dirty, no-holds-barred propaganda war of competing worldviews and alternative visions of the future - Marshall McLuhan, Culture is our Business, 1970

The distinctions between cultures are not decorative ?it's not feathers and bells or dancers or songs. Those are the symbols of culture. The essence of culture is a blanket of moral and ethical values that we place around the individual. It's culture that allows us to make sense out of sensation, to find order in a universe that may have none - Wade Davis

The differences among diverse languages and cultures are fascinating, but they help maintain walls between peoples...I'm saddened by the loss of some of the smaller national minority communities, but no more or less than I'm saddened by the changes that happen to anything that lives, grows and dies - Darrin Maxwell, Ath, letter to Time 26/09/05

Television is the first truly democratic culture - the first culture available to everybody and entirely governed by what the people want. The most terrifying thing is what people do want - Clive Alexander Barnes (b. 1927), British journalist, critic, author

Technology addresses neither the incentives, nor the attitudes that promote a "knowledge organisation". Success lies in creating the culture for sharing, and then enabling with technology - Dave Snowden

Ego is a structure that is erected by a neurotic individual who is a member of a neurotic culture against the facts of the matter. And culture, which we put on like an overcoat, is the collectivised consensus about what sort of neurotic behaviors are acceptable - Terence McKenna