Disruption of Norms Quotes

In the information age, when tradition, propriety, formality or culture clash with informational ease and utility, the traditional forms must … yield.

All the traditional models for doing things are collapsing; from music to publishing to film, and it's a wide open door for people who are creative to do what they need to do without having institutions block their art.

Many new technologies come with a promise to change the world, but the world refuses to cooperate.

The idea of telling a story in reverse destabilises your ordinary moral reactions. That's one of the points of art - to challenge your preconceptions.

Every technology, including the printing press, comes at some price.

Demolishing pretensions, especially worthy ones, is a hallmark of the baby boom.

Every revolution destroys the average middle first and most savagely.

The world that we all knew before, could wake up in feeling safe... now it seems that everything has been turned upside down.

States are like people. They do not question the awful status quo until some dramatic event overturns the conventional and lax way of thinking.

The working-class is now issuing from its hiding-place to assert an Englishman's heaven-born privilege of doing as he likes, and is beginning to perplex us by marching where it likes, meeting where it likes, bawling what it likes, breaking what it likes.

Men are made uneasy; they flinch; they cannot bear the sudden light; a general restlessness supervenes; the face of society is disturbed, or perhaps convulsed; old interests and old beliefs have been destroyed before new ones have been created. These symptoms are the precursors of revolution; they have preceded all the great changes through which the world has passed.