The Twilight of American Culture by Morris Berman

The Twilight of American Culture by Morris Berman

Author:Morris Berman [Berman, Morris]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Anthropology, Sociology, Social Science, Popular Culture, General, United States, Cultural, Civilization, Customs & Traditions, 20th Century, History
ISBN: 9780393321692
Google: Fbpjdj8wwRYC
Amazon: 039332169X
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Published: 2001-06-15T04:00:00+00:00


we didn’t get along well until photography came into its own. Then—motion pictures in the early twentieth century. Radio. Television. Things began to have mass. . . . And because they had mass, they became simpler. . . . Films and radios, magazines, books leveled down to a sort of pastepudding norm. . . .

Everything was designed for a quick sell, everything had to have a snap ending, until finally the cultural pattern became: “Out of the nursery into the college and back to the nursery.” Life turned into slogans, sound bites; the goal was to whirl the mind around “under the pumping hands of publishers, exploiters, [and] broadcasters. . . .” He goes on:



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