Peter L. Berger

The past is malleable and flexible, changing as our recollection interprets and re-explains what has happened.

The negative side to globalization is that it wipes out entire economic systems and in doing so wipes out the accompanying culture.

Even if one is interested only in one's own society, which is one's prerogative, one can understand that society much better by comparing it with others.

My perspective is cultural and world-based. It's always been a global perspective.

Shaft was a pop culture figure along t he lines of, I guess, Dirty Harry - except that he wasn't as much of a racist. So yeah, I was always a fan.

It is the emergence of mass media which makes possible the use of propaganda techniques on a societal scale.