“Unfortunately, our affluent society has also been an effluent society.”
“Pop art: only possible in an affluent society, where one can be free to enjoy ironic consumption.”
“Has there ever been a society which has died of dissent? Several have died of conformity in our lifetime.” Jacob Bronowski in Science and Human Values”
“As society has changed, what had formerly been unacceptable has become colourful.”
“Our era is one in which individualism has been submerged by the herd-like mentality of a society where conformity, mediocrity and lowered expectations are the norm.”
“At one and the same time, therefore, society is everything and society is nothing. Society is the most powerful concoction in the world and society has no existence whatsoever”