Quotes by Kalle Lasn

Kalle Lasn

A meme (rhymes with dream) is a unit of information (a catchphrase, a concept, a tune, a notion of fashion, philosophy or politics) that leaps from brain to brain. Memes compete with one another for replication, and are passed down through a population much the same way genes pass through a species. Potent memes can change minds, alter behavior, catalyze collective mindshifts and transform cultures. Which is why meme warfare has become the geopolitical battle of our information age. Whoever has the memes has the power.

Dream

Fashion

Philosophy

All of us somehow felt that the next battleground was going to be culture. We all felt somehow that our culture had been stolen from us-by commercial forces, by advertising agencies, by TV broadcasters. It felt like we were no longer singing our songs and telling stories, and generating our culture from the bottom up, but now we were somehow being spoon-fed this commercial culture top down.

Agency

Song

Top Down

America, the great liberator, is in desperate need of being liberated from itself – from its own excesses and arrogance. And the world needs to be liberated from American values and culture, spreading across the planet as if by divine providence.

America

Arrogance

Needs

American culture is no longer created by the people… A free, authentic life is no longer possible in AmericaTM today. We are being manipulated in the most insidious way. Our emotions, personalities and core values are under siege from media and cultural forces too complex to decode. A continuous product message has woven itself into the very fabric of our existence. Most North Americans now live designer lives-sleep, eat, sit in car, work, shop, watch TV, sleep again. I doubt there’s more than a handful of free, spontaneous minutes anywhere in that cycle. We ourselves have been branded.

Car

Media

Sleep

An increasing number of people are growing uncomfortable with the gulf between the world’s rich and the poor. Ostentatiously splashing your money around simply draws attention to that disparity, and to your own position on the lucky higher ground. It suggests a callousness, an inhumanity, a let’s-just-rub-their-noses-in-it arrogance.

Higher Ground

Numbers

People

Corporations are not legal “persons” with constitutional rights and freedoms of their own, but legal fictions that we created and must therefore control.

Corporations

Fiction

Rights

I believe that one of the most powerful things of all is aesthetics.

Aesthetics

Believe

Powerful

In the global marketplace of the future the price of every product will tell the ecological truth.

Ecological

Marketplace

Products

It’s a measure of the depth of our consumer trance that the death of the planet is not sufficient to break it.

Break

Depth

Economy

Jamming a coin into a monopoly newspaper box or liberating a billboard in the middle of the night can be a rather honest and joyful thing to do.

Coins

Honest

Night

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Aesthetics

Agency

America

Arrogance

Believe

Break

Car

Coins

Corporations

Cutting

Democracy

Depth

Doomsday

Dream

Ecological

Economy

Environment

Environmental

Factories

Fashion

Fiction

Fighting

Firsts

Giving

Heart

Higher Ground

Honest

Machines

Magic Moments

Marketplace

Media

Mother

Needs

Night

Numbers

Ocean

Past

People

Philosophy

Powerful

Products

Profound

Rights

Sleep

Song

Thinking

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Quotes by Kalle Lasn

Kalle Lasn

America, the great liberator, is in desperate need of being liberated from itself – from its own excesses and arrogance. And the world needs to be liberated from American values and culture, spreading across the planet as if by divine providence.

Corporations are not legal “persons” with constitutional rights and freedoms of their own, but legal fictions that we created and must therefore control.

I believe that one of the most powerful things of all is aesthetics.

In the global marketplace of the future the price of every product will tell the ecological truth.

It’s a measure of the depth of our consumer trance that the death of the planet is not sufficient to break it.

Jamming a coin into a monopoly newspaper box or liberating a billboard in the middle of the night can be a rather honest and joyful thing to do.

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