Our culture has become something that is completely and utterly in love with its parent. It’s become a notion of boredom that is bought and sold, where nothing will happen except that people will become more and more terrified of tomorrow, because the new continues to look old, and the old will always look cute.
ATTRIBUTION:
Malcolm McLaren (b. 1946), British rock impresario. transcript of discussion, Sept. 24, 1988, New York City. “Punk and History,” published in Discourses: Conversations in Postmodern Art and Culture, ed. Russell Ferguson, et al. (1990).
