Cultural Obsolescence Quotes

Goth is dead, punk is dead, and rock n' roll is dead. Trends are dead. Nothing exists anymore because the world is spinning faster than any trend.

You know, one had as good be out of the world, as out of the fashion.

I don't have space to enter into the examples or the history of this, so I'm left with having to make the bold statement that culture is extinct.

Even the most inspired verse, which boasts not without a relative justification to be immortal, becomes in the course of ages a scarcely legible hieroglyphic; the language it was written in dies, a learned education and an imaginative effort are requisite to catch even a vestige of its original force. Nothing is so irrevocable as mind.

Fashion postulates an achrony, a time which does not exist; here the past is shameful and the present is constantly "eaten up" by the Fashion being heralded.

The New Age, I think, is a term that is well laid to rest.

And I was shocked, To see the mistakes of each generation, Will just fade like a radio station, If you drive out of range...

You will hear words old and spent and useless like costumes left over from yesterday's parties.

As I've indicated, most books go out of print within one year. The same is true of music and film. Commercial culture is sharklike. It must keep moving. And when a creative work falls out of favor with the commercial distributors, the commercial life ends.