Browsing Quotes With Tag: generation-y (18)
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Punk Capitalism isn’t about big government or big markets but about a new breed of incredibly efficient networks. This is not digital communism, this isn’t central planning. it is in fact quite the opposite: a new kind of decentralized democracy made possible by changes in technology. Piracy isn’t just another business model, it’s one of the greatest business models we have.
Speaker: Matt MasonPosted: 26 Aug 2008 at 12:02 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
New youth cultures can’t be as safe as those of days gone by, because if they stay within socially acceptable limits, marketers pounce, and before long they are just another branded spectacle.
Speaker: Matt MasonPosted: 26 Aug 2008 at 11:59 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
We can transmit to the world a carefully managed perception of who we are, what we think is cool, what we wear and listen to. We need the network or no one will hear us, but we retain the power. Marketers can’t sell us meaning; we have to find it in their products, and if we do, and we’re passionate about them, we’ll happily tell everyone we can. But by the same token, if a brand or an idea makes one wrong move, it can cause the entire crowd to walk away.
Speaker: Matt MasonPosted: 26 Aug 2008 at 11:58 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
What has changed is the amount of choices we have. We have so much music available to us, the sample size is too large – it’s impossible to observe change. Youth culture can no longer rebel against the status quo in music, because there isn’t one.
Speaker: Matt MasonPosted: 26 Aug 2008 at 11:57 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
Youth cultures today are small and loose-knit, floating on the electronic ether, making authentic connections with fans worldwide. Fans do not court them exclusively; they maintain open relationships with a number of other niche cultures at the same time. The days when punks had a uniform and were easy to identify are gone; marketers can’t tell who we are just by looking at us anymore. Old demographics are becoming obsolete, and old generation gaps are beginning to disappear.
Speaker: Matt MasonPosted: 26 Aug 2008 at 11:54 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
The images of the tragedy confirm the world’s paranoia as they are instantly beamed back to the crowds in San Francisco, Beijing, and London. Desensitized viewers are delivered their daily dose of fear; the horrific stats scroll across the bottom of our flickering screens. There is no time for context as the network cuts to commercials.
Speaker: Matt MasonPosted: 26 Aug 2008 at 11:51 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
The idea that youth culture might change things seems naive and quaint in an age where new trends are sold back to us before we even knew they were happening.
Speaker: Matt MasonPosted: 26 Aug 2008 at 11:50 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
“Bohemias. Alternative Subcultures. They were a crucial aspect of industrial civilization in the two previous centuries. They were where industrial civilization went to dream. A sort of unconscious R&D, exploring alternate social strategies. Each one would have a dress code, characteristic forms of artistic expression, a substance or substances of choice, and a set of sexual values at odds with those of the culture at large. And they did, frequently, have locales with which they became associated. But they became extinct.”
“Extinct?”
“We started picking them before they could ripen.”Speaker: William GibsonPosted: 26 Aug 2008 at 11:49 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
Hip-hop took over from the inside, like a wolf in sheep’s clothing. But now it’s just a herd of sheep dressed in adorable little limited-edition wolf outfits with dorky matching sneakers and fitted hats. The politics, rage, and rebellion of groups such as Public Enemy have been replaced by a generation more concerned with Public Enemy member Flavor Flav’s VH1 reality show 'Flavor of Love,’ confirming hip-hop’s worst fear: a wack planet.
Speaker: Matt MasonPosted: 26 Aug 2008 at 11:10 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
The mainstream news media are being undermined by bloggers and citizen journalists offering a wider variety of local and niche coverage. But they are also regularly beating the pros at the networks to some of the world’s biggest stories. This is happening because journalism doesn’t work quite as it should anymore. As bloggers dig deeper and wider, the mainstream news networks are becoming increasingly shallow.
In June 2005, the major U.S. network and cable television stations ran 6,248 segments on the Michael Jackson child molestation trial. There were 1,534 segments discussing Tom Cruise, and 405 on a runaway bride from Georgia. Dramatic fighting broke out in eastern Sudan that June, an intensely newsworthy event, especially when one takes into account the largely ignored steady-state genocide in Darfur, which had killed more than four hundred thousand people in the previous two years. A total of 126 segments ran mentioning Sudan. Michael Jackson got fifty times more coverage than what was fast becomeing one of the largest humanitarian crises of the decade.Speaker: Matt MasonPosted: 26 Aug 2008 at 10:38 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
In America there is no anti-status quo media. It’s all the same four big companies, and they’re all afraid of losing Budweiser so it’s just like, there’s no voice. 'The Daily Show with Jon Stewart’ is the most watched 'news’ program by people under thirty-five and it’s a spoof comedy show. There is a huge market out there of disenfranchised kids.”
Speaker: Shane SmithPosted: 26 Aug 2008 at 10:32 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
The interesting thing is not to remain the same. To me that’s what’s boring; I don’t really care to see fifty-year-old people going around in punk leather jackets. The point is to stay unclassifiable. Then they don’t own you.
Speaker: Richard HellPosted: 26 Aug 2008 at 10:27 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
Too many vacations, vacations lasting too long, too many movies, too much TV, too much video-game playing, too much undisciplined leisure time in which a person continually takes the course of least resistance – this kind of thing gradually wastes a life, wastes a family. It ensures that one’s capacities stay dormant, God-given talents remain undeveloped, the mind and spirit become lethargic, and the heart is unfulfilled. Such a life gives no service, makes no contribution, enjoys no larger vision, and short of repentance and change, it slips down to spiritual decay and death.
Speaker: Stephen CoveySource: Divine Center, thePosted: 21 Aug 2008 at 8:35 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
Women get it wrong when they complain about the media images of women. Men understand that not everyone had Bardot’s breasts, or Jamie Lee Curtis’ neck, or Cindy Crawford’s bottom, and we don’t mind at all. Obviously we’d take Kim Basinger over Phyllis Diller, just as women would take Keanu Reeves over Sergeant Bilko, but it’s not the body that’s important, it’s the level of abasement. We worked out very quickly that Bond girls were out of our league, but the realization that women won’t ever look at us the way Ursula Andress looked at Sean Connery, or even in the way that Doris day looked at Rock Hudson, was much slower to arrive, for most of us. In my case, I’m not at all sure that it ever did.
…It’s much harder to get used to the idea that my little-boy notion of romance, of negligees and candlelit dinners at home and long, smoldering glances, had no basis in reality at all. That’s what women ought to get all steamed up about; that’s why we can’t function properly in a relationship. It’s not the cellulite or the crow’s feet. It’s the…the… the disrespect.Speaker: Nick HornbyPosted: 20 Aug 2008 at 9:21 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
People go on about places like Starbucks being unpersonal and all that, but what if that’s what you want? I’d be lost if JJ and people like that got their way, and there was nothing unpersonal in the world. I like to know that there are big places without windows where no one gives a shit. You need confidence to go into small places with regular customers – small bookshops and small music shops and small restaurants and cafes. I’m happiest in the Virgin Megastore and Borders and Starbucks and PizzaExpress, where no one gives a shit, and no one knows who you are. My mum and dad are always going on about how soulless those places are, and I’m like, Der. That’s the point.
Speaker: Nick HornbyPosted: 20 Aug 2008 at 8:56 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
“No, I get it,” said Jess.
“Yeah?”
“Course I do. You’re fucked.” She waved an apologetic hand in Maureen’s direction, like a tennis player acknowledging a lucky net cord. “You thought you were going to be someone, but now it’s obvious you’re nobody. You haven’t got as much talent as you thought you had, and there was no Plan B, and you got no skills and no education, and now you’re looking at forty or fifty years of nothing. Less than nothing, probably. That’s pretty heavy. That’s worse than having the brain thing, because what you got now will take a lot longer to kill you. You’ve got the choice of a slow, painful death, or a quick, merciful one.”
She shrugged.
She was right. She got it.Speaker: Nick HornbyPosted: 20 Aug 2008 at 8:55 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
All those wooly hats, and mustaches with parts of them missing, all those new tattoos and plastic shoes… I mean, I’m a liberal guy, and I didn’t want Bush to bomb Iraq, and I like a toke as much as the next guy, but these people still fill my heart with fear and loathing, mostly because I know they wouldn’t have liked my band. When we played a college town, and we walked out in front of a crowd like this, I knew we were going to have a hard time. They don’t like real music, these people. They don’t like the Ramones or the Temptations or the 'Mats; they like DJ Bleepy and his stupid fucking bleeps. Or else they all pretend that they’re fucking gangstas, and listen to hip-hop about hos and guns.
Speaker: Nick HornbyPosted: 20 Aug 2008 at 8:52 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
The trouble with my generation is that we all think we’re fucking geniuses. Making something isn’t good enough for us, and neither is selling something, or teaching something, or even just doing something; we have to be something. It’s our inalienable right, as citizens of the twenty-first century. If Christina Aguilera or Britney or some American Idol jerk can be something, then why can’t I? Where’s mine, huh? OK, so my band, we put on the best live shows you could ever see in a bar, and we made two albums, which a lot of critics and not many real people liked. But having talent is never enough to make us happy, is it? I mean, it should be, because a talent is a gift, and you should thank God for it, but I didn’t. It just pissed me off because I wasn’t being paid for it, and it didn’t get me on the cover of Rolling Stone.
Oscar Wilde once said, “One’s real life is so often the life that one does not lead.” Well, fucking right on, Oscar. My real life was full of headlining shows at Wembley and Madison Square Garden and platinum records, and Grammys, and that wasn’t the life I was leading, which is maybe why it felt like I could throw it away.Speaker: Nick HornbyPosted: 20 Aug 2008 at 8:50 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment!