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Topic·Modern life✕clear

And the wind shall say: "Here were decent godless people: Their only monument the asphalt road And a thousand lost golf balls."

1934

★ 6.9

Film · Comedy drama (film) · Comedy drama

Choose life. Choose a job. Choose a career. Choose a family. Choose a fucking big television, choose washing machines, cars, compact disc players and electrical tin openers. Choose good health, low cholesterol, and dental insurance. Choose fixed interest mortgage repayments. Choose a starter home. Choose your friends. Choose leisurewear and matching luggage. Choose a three-piece suite on hire purchased in a range of fucking fabrics. Choose DIY and wondering who the fuck you are on Sunday morning. Choose sitting on that couch watching mind-numbing, spirit-crushing game shows, stuffing fucking junk food into your mouth. Choose rotting away at the end of it all, pissing your last in a miserable home, nothing more than an embarrassment to the selfish, fucked up brats that you've spawned to replace yourselves. Choose your future. Choose life...but why would I want to do a thing like that? I chose not to choose life. I chose somethin' else. And the reasons? There are no reasons. Who needs reasons when you've got heroin?

Trainspotting · 1996

★ 6.9

Novel · Philosophical literature

A single sentence will suffice for modern man: he fornicated and read the papers.

The Fall · 1956

★ 6.2

Film · Drama (film) · Drama

Give us this day our television, and an automobile, but deliver us from freedom.

Madeleine Zimmer

Masculin Feminin · 1966

★ 6.0

The sea of faith Was once, too, at the full, and round earth's shore Lay like the folds of a bright girdle furl'd; But now I only hear Its melancholy, long, withdrawing roar, Retreating, to the breath Of the night-wind down the vast edges drear And naked shingles of the world. Ah, love, let us be true To one another! for the world, which seems To lie before us like a land of dreams, So various, so beautiful, so new, Hath really neither joy, nor love, nor light, Nor certitude, nor peace, nor help for pain; And we are here as on a darkling plain Swept with confused alarms of struggle and flight, Where ignorant armies clash by night.

Dover Beach · 1867

★ 5.2

The tragedy of modern man is not that he knows less and less about the meaning of his own life, but that it bothers him less and less.

1983

★ 5.2

It was at the highest point in the arc of a bridge that I became aware suddenly of the depth and bitterness of my feelings about modern life, and of the profoundness of my yearning for a more vivid, simple, and peaceable world.

1978

★ 5.0

We are becoming like cats, slyly parasitic, enjoying an indifferent domesticity. Nice and smug in "the social," our historic passions have withdrawn into the glow of an artificial coziness, and our half-closed eyes now seek little other than the peaceful parade of television pictures.

Jean Baudrillard

1987

★ 5.0

Men travel faster now, but I do not know if they go to better things.

Death Comes for the Archbishop · 1929

★ 3.8

Song · Rock music

They paved paradise And put up a parking lot, With a pink hotel, A boutique, and a swinging hot spot.

Big Yellow Taxi · 1970

★ 3.7

Film · Prison drama (film) · Drama (film) · Prison drama · Drama

The world went and got itself in a big damn hurry.

The Shawshank Redemption · 1994

★ 3.7

TV program · Comedy (TV) · Drama (TV) · Comedy · Drama

Either everyone feels like this a little bit and they’re just not talking about it or I am completely fucking alone.

Fleabag · 2016

★ 3.7

TV program · Comedy (TV) · Drama (TV) · Comedy · Drama

No, I want someone to tell me what to wear every morning. I want someone to tell me what to eat. What to like, what to hate, what to rage about, what to listen to, what band to like, what to buy tickets for, what to joke about, what not to joke about. I want someone to tell me what to believe in, who to vote for, who to love and how to tell them.

Fleabag · 2019

★ 3.6

Psychological literature

Freedom, though it has brought him independence and rationality, has made him isolated and, thereby, anxious and powerless.

1941

★ 3.5

Our gadget-filled paradise suspended in a hell of international insecurity.

Reinhold Niebuhr

1957

★ 3.5

The life of white men is slavery. They are prisoners in towns or farms. The life my people want is a life of freedom. I have seen nothing that a white man has, houses or railways or clothing or food, that is as good as the right to move in the open country, and live in our own fashion.

★ 3.5

In the deep windings of the grove, no more The hag obscene, and the grisly phantom dwell; Nor in the fall of mountain-stream, or roar Of winds is heard the angry spirit's yell.

1774

★ 3.5

The orgasm has replaced the Cross as the focus of longing and the image of fulfilment.

Malcolm Muggeridge

1966

★ 3.5

You have riches and freedom here but I feel no sense of faith or direction. You have so many computers, why don't you use them in the search for love?

The Daily Telegraph · 1988

★ 3.5

In the middle ages people were tourists because of their religion, whereas now they are tourists because tourism is their religion.

1988

★ 3.5

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