On street corners everywhere, people are looking at their cell phones, and it's easy to dismiss this as some sort of bad trend in human culture. But the truth is life is being lived there.
Of course fashion is definitely playing a part.
So soon as a fashion is universal, it is out of date.
I was a communist, but being left-wing was fashionable. I was no different from thousands of middle-class kids.
In every age there has been a stream of popular opinion that has carried all before it, and given a family character, as it were, to the century.
Benevolence has come somewhat into fashion of late.
It's a sound bite. It's very of this age, because that's what people want.
Fashions, being themselves begotten of the desire for change, are quick to change also.
The dominance of daughters in the country has started rising. This is a good social change.
Photography as a fad is well-nigh on its last legs, thanks principally to the bicycle craze.
Flash mobbing may be a fad that passes away, or it may be an indicator of things to come.
Trends die. That's the natural thing about a trend. It's natural for people to be followers and be sheep and go with a trend.
Our mission for younger people is to do our best to make exercise cool, hip - the thing to do.
I am down with the latest trends. And everyone knows, the thing on the streets is vampires. So I have been biting people on the neck.
I think it is appropriate to ask whether this trend is compatible with values rooted in our nation's history, among them the high value Americans have traditionally placed on equality of opportunity.
Glizzy Gang is a real movement. They had movements back when I was younger, in the '90s, but you don't really have a major movement in the 2000s.
People gravitate to what they believe to be popular... Technology is enabling even more of that.
Standing outside the cultural hysteria the trend is fairly clear. It is a trend toward temporal compression and the emergence of ambiguity.
You know, it's fashionable right now for people to be cynical. We go in cycles like this and right now a lot of people are saying, 'Oh, America is doing terribly' and 'What are we going to do?'
... but the pendulum has swung way out of whack here. A bad idea is still bad, and the pivot happy world we're in today feels suboptimal.
The American preoccupation with the law, which is certainly not past, was at its zenith in 1995. The 1980s, the late 1980s, had sort of begun to percolate up to public consciousness this enormous interest in the law.
The only silver lining I can find is that British accents aren't sexy anymore.
The truth is nobody was a Muslim until Public Enemy came out. Then, everybody was Muslim this and Muslim that. It's a bandwagon thing. Islam is a way of life... it's a religion. It's not just something you put on a record.
William: What do you think of the fact that your home has been invaded by women? Maddox: I couldn’t be more pleased, as long as none of them does something to hurt Ashlyn. And I take full credit for starting the trend.
Legend has it that every new technology is first used for something related to sex or pornography. That seems to be the way of humankind.
