Culture Jam Quotes

“Corporations are not legal “persons” with constitutional rights and freedoms of their own, but legal fictions that we created and must therefore control.”
― Kalle Lasn, Culture Jam: How to Reverse America's Suicidal Consumer Binge - and Why We Must

“Our mental environment is a common-property resource like the air or the water. We need to protect ourselves from unwanted incursions into it, much the same way we lobbied for nonsmoking areas ten years ago.”
― Kalle Lasn, Culture Jam: How to Reverse America's Suicidal Consumer Binge - and Why We Must

“Do an overwhelming number of respected scientists believe that human actions are changing the Earth's climate? Yes. OK, that being the case, let's undermine that by finding and funding those few contrarians who believe otherwise. Promote their message widely and it will accumulate in the mental environment, just as toxic mercury accumulates in a biological ecosystem. Once enough of the toxin has been dispersed, the balance of public understanding will shift. Fund a low level campaign to suggest any threat to the car is an attack on personal freedoms. Create a "grassroots" group to defend the right to drive. Portray anticar activists as prudes who long for the days of the horse and buggy. Then sit back, watch the infotoxins spread - and get ready to sell bigger, better cars for years to come.”
― Kalle Lasn, Culture Jam: How to Reverse America's Suicidal Consumer Binge - and Why We Must

“In the global marketplace of the future the price of every product will tell the ecological truth.”
― Kalle Lasn, Culture Jam: How to Reverse America's Suicidal Consumer Binge - and Why We Must

“In the Soviet Union you weren’t allowed to speak out against the government. In the US you cannot speak out against sponsors.”
― Kalle Lasn, Culture Jam: How to Reverse America's Suicidal Consumer Binge - and Why We Must

“In her 1994 book Bird by Bird, writer Anne Lamott reflects on a California vineyard in early fall. It is 'about as voluptuous a place as you can find on earth: the sense of lushness and abundance; the fullness of the clumps of grapes that hang, mammarian, and give off an ancient autumnal smell, semiprotected from the sun by their leaves. The grapes are so incredibly beautiful that you can't help but be thrilled. If you aren't, if you only see someone's profit or that in another month, there will be rotten fruit all over the ground, someone has gotten inside your brain and really fucked you up.”
― Kalle Lasn, Culture Jam: How to Reverse America's Suicidal Consumer Binge - and Why We Must