Mainstream Quotes

“If New Orleans is not fully in the mainstream of culture, neither is it fully in the mainstream of time. Lacking a well-defined present, it lives somewhere between its past and its future, as if uncertain whether to advance or to retreat. Perhaps it is its perpetual ambivalence that is its secret charm. Somewhere between Preservation Hall and the Superdome, between voodoo and cybernetics, New Orleans listens eagerly to the seductive promises of the future but keeps at least one foot firmly planted in its history, and in the end, conforms, like an artist, not to the world but to its own inner being--ever mindful of its personal style.”
― Tom Robbins, Jitterbug Perfume

“Nothing in my view is more reprehensible than those habits of mind in the intellectual that induce avoidance, that characteristic turning away from a difficult and principled position, which you know to be the right one, but which you decide not to take. You do not want to appear too political; you are afraid of seeming controversial; you want to keep a reputation for being balanced, objective, moderate; your hope is to be asked back, to consult, to be on a board or prestigious committee, and so to remain within the responsible mainstream; someday you hope to get an honorary degree, a big prize, perhaps even an ambassadorship. For an intellectual these habits of mind are corrupting par excellence. If anything can denature, neutralize, and finally kill a passionate intellectual life it is the internalization of such habits. Personally I have encountered them in one of the toughest of all contemporary issues, Palestine, where fear of speaking out about one of the greatest injustices in modern history has hobbled, blinkered, muzzled many who know the truth and are in a position to serve it. For despite the abuse and vilification that any outspoken supporter of Palestinian rights and self-determination earns for him or herself, the truth deserves to be spoken, represented by an unafraid and compassionate intellectual.”
― Edward W. Said

“In dictatorships the media is controlled by the State. In democracies the media is controlled by wealthy individuals with political affiliations. Objective media and journalists simply do not exist in the mainstream.”
― Robert Black

“Womanism is feminism's vulgate. It asserts that women are the oppressed or the victims and never the collaborators in the 'bad' things that men do. It entails a double standard around sexuality where women's sexual self-expression is seen as necessary and even desirable, but men's is seen as dangerous or even disgusting. Womanism is by no means confined to a tiny, politically motivated bunch of man-hating feminists, but is a regular feature of mainstream culture.”
― Rosalind Coward, Sacred Cows: Is Feminism Relevant to the New Millennium?

“Das Netz ist das Ende des Mainstreams [...]”
― Sascha Lobo

“I adore the absurd and the abnormal; therefore, that's what I write about. That's what I need to write about. The mainstream has never turned me on.”
― Gerri R. Gray, Gray Skies of Dismal Dreams

“For anybody who's tracking actual predictive power, The Fringe will surprisingly keep being the place where reality is spotted first.”
― Bret Weinstein

“I was fortunate when I developed mental illness that it had gone mainstream.”
― Steven Magee

“Popularity is the crown of laurel which the world puts on bad art. Whatever is popular is wrong.”
― Oscar Wilde, Lecture to Art Students

“Qualcuno deve pur lottare. Abbiamo una grande tradizione di libertà da difendere. Io non appartengo a nessun partito. Quando vedo l’infamia cerco di combatterla. I partiti non significano nulla, la tradizione di libertà è tutto. Oh, certo, la gente comune non se ne preoccupa. Sono pronti a vendere la libertà per una vita più tranquilla. è per questo che devono essere pungolati, pungolati.”
― Anthony Burgess, A Clockwork Orange

“The mainstream news is focused on producing articles that produce advertising revenue.”
― Steven Magee

“Taco Hidde Bakker: Originality is an overrated concept. Nothing that we have can ever be properly ours. It is a good thing to acknowledge influence, and he who is open to many influences can in the end participate in a main stream (without becoming mainstream per se).
Ken Schles: Linking into that stream is empowering. So much more unites us than we let ourselves believe. So much that we think original is nothing of the sort. Culture builds on itself and replicates itself. Tribal culture, capitalist culture thrives on highlighting dissimilarities, but shared aspects of culture unite us (and interest me). Our cultural regurgitations not only bind us together along points of unity, they replicate and radiate through us in thought and action. We mimic culture outright or mark it with unique signatures specific to our time in space.”
― Taco Hidde Bakker, The Photograph That Took the Place of a Mountain

“Il Canonico rispose che lui non era affatto d'idee larghe e che, per dire il vero, questo non gli dispiaceva, perché la larghezza d'idee spesso non era altro che superficialità.”
― Bruce Marshall, Il mondo, la carne e Padre Smith

“Most mainstream news agencies have a biased corporation behind them that is controlling the news feed.”
― Steven Magee

“It appears that workers compensation lawyers only get paid if they win their case. If your case lies outside of mainstream cases with a history of winning, they are unlikely to take it.”
― Steven Magee

“Mainstream “science” is not the pursuit of knowledge overwhelmingly, it is about defending a rigid belief system and repelling all information that would demolish the foundations of those rigid beliefs.”
― David Icke, I am me I am free: The Robots' Guide to Freedom

“Nella ricerca storica non vale la regola che sia la maggioranza a stabilire la verità storica, ma vale soltanto ciò che dalla ricerca e dalla conoscenza dei fatti corrisponde alla realtà storica, come risulta dai documenti. Nessuna presunzione, neppure involontaria, ma solo accertamento dei fatti storici.”
― Emilio Gentile, Quién es fascista

“I was surprised at how quickly the hurricane Ian disaster in Florida started to drop out of mainstream news.”
― Steven Magee

“The hurricane Ian disaster in Florida was receiving little attention from the mainstream news after a few days, even though the disaster was still unfolding as a historic river flooding event.”
― Steven Magee

“The mainstream media were not reporting the number of missing people during the Florida hurricane Ian disaster.”
― Steven Magee

“The historic river flooding event hurricane Ian turned into was not widely reported by mainstream media.”
― Steven Magee

“2022 will be remembered as the year the mainstream media did not report the full story about the hurricane Ian disaster in Florida to the world.”
― Steven Magee

“By the second week of the Florida hurricane Ian disaster, it became clear the mainstream media were not reporting the full story that was circulating on social media.”
― Steven Magee

“The Florida government controls the mainstream news media.”
― Steven Magee

“Mainstream media ignores the bulk of news releases.”
― Steven Magee

“Companies that have engaged in dangerous or illegal activities in the past are now at great risk as social media has gone mainstream.”
― Steven Magee

“Advertisers control the news.”
― Steven Magee

“Niente ci vuole a far la pazza, creda a me! Gliel'insegno io come si fa. Basta che Lei si metta a gridare in faccia a tutti la verità. Nessuno ci crede, e tutti la prendono per pazza!”
― Luigi Pirandello, Il berretto a sonagli

“Mainstream publishers don’t care about sharing knowledge, increasing intellect, or producing beautiful art; they focus on what the author looks like and how they identify far more than the quality of the content.”
― Jessica Marie Baumgartner, Reclaiming Femininity: Saving Women's Traditions & Our Future

“When you're a malleable teenager seeking the approval of others, you can find yourself conforming to what you think other people's tastes and interests are instead figuring out what works for you. That brings with it a special degree of contradiction for many young metalheads: reveling in an anti-conformity attitude of rejecting popular culture while also figuring out how to conform within social circles based on the expectations, styles, and tastes of those setting the tone for what's >really cool. Just because you reject mainstream groupthink doesn't mean you're not susceptible to underground groupthink in your own bubbles, circles, and bullshit.”
― Danica Roem, Burn the Page: A True Story of Torching Doubts, Blazing Trails, and Igniting Change