Todd Gitlin
Quotes by Todd Gitlin
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We may repeat the awful revolutionary history of the 20th century because of the vulnerability of social movements to demagoguery.
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As I write at the end, if we step back and face the enormity of the torrent, then we have taken the first step to imagining what we might want to do about it.
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The manufacture of desire isn't at the heart - if it isn't absurd to speak of a heart - of the media torrent. Chronic dissatisfaction is at the heart of the matter.
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Navigation is power of a limited sort - it enables us to manage the immensity of the media torrent.
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American movies and music deliver themes of freedom, innocence, and power that appeal to others - partly because America itself was put together out of a multiplicity of national traditions.
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So every day I'm mindful as I watch the Bush crowd extend their sway into policies of every imaginable variety, and over almost every square foot of earth, that the control of the American state is a matter of urgency.
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Some versions of patriotism come close to the tribal, which we all want to surpass, and some don't.
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