“A culture of unaccountability is a culture without incentive, and a culture without incentive is the death of critical and creative thinking.”
“Death is inevitable. But the meaning people attach to death, its causes and aftermath, is culturally given. Without meaning, without culture making sense of things, life would be impossible.”
“Culture carries no privilege to exist. Cultures do not have value simply because they are. Some cultures, the world is better off without.”
“I have no culture, no humane harmony in my brains. I can't live without a culture anymore.”
“Pop culture has entered into a nostalgic malaise. Online culture is dominated by trivial mashups of the culture that existed before the onset of mashups, and by fandom responding to the dwindling outposts of centralized mass media. It is a culture of reaction without action.”
“The best incentive for an artist are the harshest criticism”