6 Quotes by Criss Jami about pop-culture
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Popular culture is a place where pity is called compassion, flattery is called love, propaganda is called knowledge, tension is called peace, gossip is called news, and auto-tune is called singing.
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Pure wisdom is the 'fruit of life'; banal platitudes are the 'bane of existence'.
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Fashion is simply a guideline for style-less people to appear stylish.
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As individuals die every moment, how insensitive and fabricated a love it is to set aside a day from selfish routine in prideful, patriotic commemoration of tragedy. Just as God is provoked by those who tithe simply because they feel that they must tithe, I am provoked by those who commemorate simply because they feel that they must commemorate.
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Every category has its snobs: music, books, movies. There are so many things a man is only pressured into liking or disliking.
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The young are often savvy in the cultural world but not so much the intellectual; the old the intellectual but not so much the cultural. But I tell you those who do the most damage during an era are very much aware of both.
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