62 ordspråk av Daniel J. Boorstin

Daniel J. Boorstin

Daniel J. Boorstin föddes den 1 oktober 1914 - amerikansk historiker.
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As individuals and as a nation, we now suffer from social narcissism. The beloved Echo of our ancestors, the virgin America, has been abandoned. We have fallen in love with our own image, with images of our making, which turn out to be images of ourselves.

We need not be theologians to see that we have shifted responsibility for making the world interesting from God to the newspaperman.

A sign of celebrity is often that their name is worth more than their services.

In fast-moving, progress-conscious America, the consumer expects to be dizzied by progress. If he could completely understand advertising jargon he would be badly disappointed. The half-intelligibility which we expect, or even hope, to find in the latest product language personally reassures each of us that progress is being made: that the pace exceeds our ability to follow.

What preoccupies us, then, is not God as a fact of nature, but as a fabrication useful for a God-fearing society. God himself becomes not a power but an image.

The most important American addition to the World Experience was the simple surprising fact of America. We have helped prepare mankind for all its later surprises.

The world of crime is a last refuge of the authentic, uncorrupted, spontaneous event.

We expect to eat and stay thin, to be constantly on the move and ever more neighbourly . . . to revere God and to be God.

When they built this building they were afraid to say that beauty is truth for fear that it wouldn't be by the time it was completed.

Standing, standing, standing - why do I have to stand all the time? That is the main characteristic of social Washington.

Freedom means the opportunity to be what we never thought we would be.

The traditional novel form continues to enlarge our experience in those very areas where the wide-angle lens and the Cinema screen tend to narrow it.

Nothing is really real unless it happens on television.

Fjernsyn

Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some hire public relations officers.

Folk

Celebrity-worship and hero-worship should not be confused. Yet we confuse them every day, and by doing so we come dangerously close to depriving ourselves of all real models. We lose sight of the men and women who do not simply seem great because they are famous but are famous because they are great. We come closer and closer to degrading all fame into notoriety.

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