I write to discover what I think. Daniel J. Boorstin More Quotes by Daniel J. Boorstin More Quotes From Daniel J. Boorstin When I was living in England I found that the more I lived abroad, the more American I discovered I was. Daniel J. Boorstin england found The improved American highway system isolated the American-in-transit. On his speedway he had no contact with the towns which he by-passed. If he stopped for food or gas, he was served no local fare or local fuel, but had one of Howard Johnson's nationally branded ice cream flavors, and so many gallons of Exxon. This vast ocean of superhighways was nearly as free of culture as the sea traversed by the Mayflower Pilgrims. Daniel J. Boorstin ice-cream ocean sea In the small town each citizen had done something in his own way to build the community. The town booster had a vision of the future which he tried to fulfill. The suburb dweller by contrast started with the future Daniel J. Boorstin visions-of-the-future citizens community The American experience stirred mankind from discovery to exploration. From the cautious quest for what they knew (or thought they knew) was out there, into an enthusiastic reaching to the unknown. These are two substantially different kinds of human enterprise. Daniel J. Boorstin different discovery two But rather that we should lose our sense that neither can become the other, that the traditional novel form continues to enlarge our experience in those very areas where the wide-angle lense and the Cinerama screen tend to narrow it. Daniel J. Boorstin lenses cinema form Dispersed as the Jews are, they still form one nation, foreign to the land they live in. Daniel J. Boorstin jew form land [The Library of Congress] is a multimedia encyclopedia. These are the tentacles of a nation. Daniel J. Boorstin multimedia library science Standing, standing, standing - why do I have to stand all the time? That is the main characteristic of social Washington. Daniel J. Boorstin characteristics politics social Best-sellerism is the star system of the book world. A "best seller" is a celebrity among books. It is a book known primarily (sometimes exclusively) for its well-knownness. Daniel J. Boorstin stars reading book Never have people been more the masters of their environment. Yet never has a people felt more deceived and disappointed. For never has a people expected so much more than the world could offer. Daniel J. Boorstin environment people world Americans expect to eat and stay thin, to be constantly on the move and ever more neighborly ... to revere God and be God. Daniel J. Boorstin moving Water, that wonderful, flowing medium, the luck of the planet - which would serve humankind in so many ways, and which would give our planet a special character. Daniel J. Boorstin giving character water Climaxing a movement for calendar reform which had been developing for at least a century, in 1582 Pope Gregory ordained that October 4 was to be followed by October 15. Daniel J. Boorstin october reform movement The most refined skills of color printing, the intricate techniques of wide-angle photography, provide us pictures of trivia bigger and more real than life. We forget that we see trivia and notice only that the reproduction is so good. Man fulfils his dream and by photographic magic produces a precise image of the Grand Canyon. The result is not that he adores nature or beauty the more. Instead he adores his camera - and himself. Daniel J. Boorstin photography real dream God is the celebrity author of the world's best seller. We have made god into the biggest celebrity of all, to contain our own emptiness. Daniel J. Boorstin emptiness atheism world 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. Daniel J. Boorstin progress america moving We must abandon the prevalent belief in the superior wisdom of the ignorant. Daniel J. Boorstin ignorant learning intellectual The computer can help us find what we know is there. But the book remains our symbol and our resource for the unimagined question and the unwelcome answer. Daniel J. Boorstin answers helping book No agnostic ever burned anyone at the stake or tortured a pagan, a heretic, or an unbeliever. Daniel J. Boorstin agnostic atheism atheist What is more natural in a democratic age than that we should begin to measure the stature of a work of art-especially of a painting-by how widely and how well it is reproduced? Daniel J. Boorstin painting age art
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