Todd Gitlin Quotes

• My business is the analytical framework.

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  Marco

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• So American culture is itself a hybrid and lends itself to use in other people's hybrids.

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  People, Use, Culture

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• Collectively, we are in thrall to media - because they deliver to us many of the psychic goods we crave, and we know no other way to live.

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  Media, Psychics, Way To Live

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• Al igual que los estadounidenses, la gente de fuera de Estados Unidos quiere diversión, quiere una compensación emocional por el utilitarismo y el cálculo que marcan el resto de sus vidas.

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  Fun, Emotional, America

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• To win power anywhere you have to convince people that you can do something for them.

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  Winning, People, Convince

  "How to be radical?". The OpenDemocracy Interview, www.opendemocracy.net. April 5, 2011.

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• America is not just 'a nation with the soul of a church,' as G.K. Chesterton wrote in 1992: it is a nation with the mind of a crusade

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  America, Soul, Mind

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• If the Bible is a creation myth, it is an amorphous confusing one

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  Confusing, Creation, Myth

  Todd Gitlin, Liel Leibovitz (2010). “The Chosen Peoples: America, Israel, and the Ordeals of Divine Election”, p.19, Simon and Schuster

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• It's an old anarchist dream that people can take care of their own lives.

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  Dream, People, Care

  "How to be radical?". The OpenDemocracy Interview, www.opendemocracy.net. April 5, 2011.

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• Right now, we have no possibility of politics because we have a one-party state.

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  Party, Possibility, States

  "To Protest or Not to Protest?". Debates between Naomi Klein and Todd Gitlin, www.alternet.org. August 27, 2004.

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• There is a fuzzy but real distinction that can and I believe should be made, between patriotism, which is attachment to a way of life, and nationalism, which is the insistence that your way of life deserves to rule over other ways of life.

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  Real, Believe, Attachment

  "How to be radical?". The OpenDemocracy Interview, www.opendemocracy.net. April 5, 2011.

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• Some versions of patriotism come close to the tribal, which we all want to surpass, and some don’t.

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  Patriotism, Want, Versions

  "How to be radical? An interview with Todd Gitlin and George Monbiot". Interview with George Monbiot, www.opendemocracy.net. April 5, 2011.

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• La navegación es un poder limitado que nos permite gestionar la inmensidad del torrente mediático.

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  Media, Navigation, Immensity

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• Mills insisted that a sociologist's proper subject was the intersection of biography and history.

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  Biographies, Mills, Sociologists

  Todd Gitlin (2013). “The Intellectuals and the Flag: Reclaiming the American Liberal Tradition”, p.28, Columbia University Press

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• El genio de la máquina económica reside en su capacidad para convertir estas indulgencias en rentabilidad. Convierte el deseo en atención, en un asidero de nuestros globos oculares y tímpanos, que a su vez puede comercializarse para los anunciantes.

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  Desire, Attention, Genius

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• I don't think anyone in the media thinks strategically about society.

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  Thinking, Media

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• Some fine day, Democrats may figure out how to get on the right side of the value divide - how to define America as a place of the common good and not a playground of the strong.

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  Strong, America, May

  "A Gathering Swarm" by Todd Gitlin, www.motherjones.com. January/February 2005.

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• Americas are, for a variety of reasons, the most adept at producing the kind of entertainment that delivers easy satisfactions.

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  Satisfaction, Entertainment, Kind

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• All I will say is that there are particular features of the American constitutional system that renders a third party futile - at best.

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  Party, Third Parties, Particular

  "How to be radical?". The OpenDemocracy Interview, www.opendemocracy.net. April 5, 2011.

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• I don't for the life of me understand how anybody could contemplate the results of the 2000 election in the US and say that electoral politics doesn't matter any more, and that Ralph Nader was right when he said there is no difference between the two parties.

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  Partido, Dos, Diferencias

  "How to be radical?". The OpenDemocracy Interview, www.opendemocracy.net. April 5, 2011.

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• I first came to think about media and politics in the late 1960s, having observed some distortions up close, but since then I wouldn't say that my personal experience has remained an important motive for my writing about media.

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  Writing, Thinking, Media

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• My position is not that John Kerry is either Jesus Christ or the prophet Mohammad. My position is that John Kerry is the possibility of restarting politics.

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  Jesus, Christ, Possibility

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• Who of us does not recognize that the life we live, however larded with brave talk about values and thought and ideals, is not actually a life dedicated to immersion in the endless torrent of images, songs, sounds and stories?

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  Song, Brave, Sound

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• Las películas y la música estadounidenses transmiten temas de libertad, inocencia y poder que atraen a otros, en parte porque la propia América se construyó a partir de una multiplicidad de tradiciones nacionales.

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  America, Together, Innocence

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• La inercia humana hace que el entorno cotidiano, el mobiliario, por así decirlo, parezca un hecho.

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  Everyday, Furniture, Environment

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• We may repeat the awful revolutionary history of the 20th century because of the vulnerability of social movements to demagoguery.

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  Movement, May, Awful

  "How to be radical?". The OpenDemocracy Interview, www.opendemocracy.net. April 5, 2011.

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