When a population becomes distracted by trivia, when cultural life is redefined as a perpetual round of entertainments, when serious public conversation becomes a form of baby-talk, when, in short, a people become an audience, and their public business a vaudeville act, then a nation finds itself at risk; culture-death is a clear possibility.
Neil Postman, Amusing Ourselves to Death
Culture founded on man-made things risks continual self-harm.
Richard Sennett, The Craftsman
All disease begins in the gut. Hippocrates
Yes. What is culture? Kenneth White, Coast to Coast
