Rob Brown Quotes

A multitude of uniform, unidentifiable houses, lined up inflexibly, at uniform distances, on uniform roads, in a treeless communal waste, inhabited by people of the same class, the same income, the same age group, witnessing the same television performances, eating the same tasteless prefabricated foods, from the same freezers, conforming in every outward and inward respect to the common mold.

I think in reality, today, if you use the same tools as everyone else, you kind of build the same products.

I see the same coffee table everywhere. It's mass marketing.

So many people want to have this typical look and this typical everything and it's all the same everywhere.

We're all getting lashed to the great wheel of uniformity.

The corporations have taken over. Even in the recording studio. Actually, the corporate companies have taken over American life most everywhere. Go coast to coast and you will see people wearing the same clothes, thinking the same thoughts, eating the same food. Everything is processed.

One of the shocking things when I go back to Canada is they cut off the tall trees - it's sort of like everyone's the same. Everyone's going to be the same, we're all okay. Just the, sort of, cultural, 'We're all okay.'

When the world becomes standard, I will start caring about standards.

I'm afraid that everything will get homogenized and be the same.

Put too many one-size-fits-all jackets on Americans and the place explodes.

Mechanization best serves mediocrity.

We are turning the world into a McDonald’s ecosystem with the same species living roughly the same way everywhere.

Each Chinese person is a kind of replica of the next one and that is a very frightening thing.

It baffles me that everything is so homogenized, because the world isn't, and yet we continue to support things that are so incredibly milquetoast.

I feel like when it comes to the models, certain models are now like commodities in certain ways.

Nobody's unique. Everybody copies off of each other. Everybody wears the same type of stuff. Nobody's an individual anymore.

The Internet seems to have killed American fashion in the sense that everybody has good style, but they also look vaguely the same.

The world needs more standardization, less innovation.

There are forces working in the world as never before in the history of mankind for standardization, for the regimentation of us all, or what I like to call making muffins of us, muffins all like every other muffin in the muffin tin. This is the limited universe, the drying dissipating universe that we can help our children to avoid by providing them with ‘explosive material capable of stirring up fresh life endlessly'.

I want everybody to think alike. I think everybody should be a machine.

McDonald's is the ultimate symbol of passive conformity.

Americans are getting like a Ford car, they all have the same exact parts, the same upholstering and make exactly the same noises.

Just as our bread, mixed and baked, packaged and sold without benefit of accident or human frailty, is uniformly good and uniformly tasteless, so will our speech become one speech.

I don't like walking in the street and seeing 30,000 copies of myself.

…It’s like a spiral: They keep making everything more basic so it will appeal to everyone. And gradually, everyone gets used to everything being basic, so we get less and less varied as people, more simple. So the corps make everything even simpler. And it goes on and on.