Cultural Phenomena Quotes

Occasionally, there are programmes - like 'The Office' or 'Gavin and Stacey,' perhaps - where you get the feeling everybody's seen it.

Contrary to what most people believe, fads are made, not born.

Fashions are induced epidemics.

Some cultural phenomena bear a striking resemblance to the cells of cell biology, actively preserving themselves in their social environments, finding the nutrients they need and fending off the causes of their dissolution.

Most fads get jump starts because of the media.

In the late '60s, there were the the three B's: The Beatles, Batman, and Bond.

The Tipping Point is the biography of an idea, and the idea is very simple. It is that the best way to understand the emergence of fashion trends, the ebb and flow of crime waves, or, for that matter, the transformation of unknown books into bestsellers, or the rise of teenage smoking, or the phenomena of word of mouth, or any number of the other mysterious changes that mark everyday life is to think of them as epidemics. Ideas and products and messages and behaviors spread just like viruses do.

Every now and then, a lot of bands doing the same kind of music will organically sprout up at once.

Fundamentalist tendencies and movements existed, so far as I know, in all societies and civilizations.