Culture Creep Quotes

“The most basic lesson of social change is that we will not dismantle power by collaborating with it, and yet we need to learn it again and again”
― Alice Bolin, Culture Creep: Notes on the Pop Apocalypse

“Our stubborn American status quo, where wealth and political power are so ludicrously concentrated, was seemingly incarnated in the founders, some of the smartest guys of the eighteenth century, whose inspiring opening salvo, a poetic ode to all men being created equal, was maybe more marketing than actual game plan. With this they got the foreign policy apparatus of France to buy into what might be the most ambitious and visionary start-up venture of all time, the United States of America.”
― Alice Bolin, Culture Creep: Notes on the Pop Apocalypse

“To humanize the gorgeous celebrity, the feminist may show how her envied beauty arose in tragedy and led her to ruin.”
― Alice Bolin, Culture Creep: Notes on the Pop Apocalypse