John Berger Quotes
Post-modernism has cut off the present from all futures. The daily media add to this by cutting off the past. Which means that critical opinion is often orphaned in the present.
Berger, John. Hold Everything Dear: Dispatches on Survival and Resistance. Verso, 2007.
The Prime Minister was called to answer for one of his appointments where the appointee and been the Editor of the World News International. Later, it tuned out that the publication during his editorship had committed a large number of unethical and criminal acts.
Most historians and politicians believe the reverse to be true and that is WHY history should be studied. For them, history is a means to an end. For Taylor’s point of view, it is the end.
Actually, most extreme conservatives do live in different centuries at the same time. One is the century in which they are living physically. The second is an earlier one—the century from which his ideology stems. Likewise, most liberal reformers and revolutionists also live in two centuries. The first is the one in which they live physically. The second is in the future where their hopes, dreams, and reforms lie.
It is important to know history but not be bogged down by it.
John Peter Berger was an English art critic, novelist, painter and poet. His novel G. won the 1972 Booker Prize, and his essay on art criticism Ways of Seeing, written as an accompaniment to the BBC series of the same name, is often used as a university text. He lived in France for over fifty years.
