mass-culture

I don't belong to the masses, I've been against the masses all my life, and I'm not in favour of dogs.

The time when you should most of all withdraw into yourself is when you are forced to be in a crowd.

More than the divides of race, class, or gender, more than rural or urban, believer or nonbeliever, red state or blue state, our culture has been carved up into radically distinct, unbridgeable, and antagonistic entities that no longer speak the same language and cannot communicate. This is the divide between a literate, marginalized minority and those who have been consumed by an illiterate mass culture.

The more hideous the mental contortions, the greater the delight and bravos of the mass.

Books like Twilight are not art. They are mass-produced crap that is meant to be consumed by the widest possible audience, for the largest possible profit.