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It's like a 'chicken or the egg' thing. We're all part of the culture. We're reflecting it; we're changing it. So, yeah, I think culture is always changing.

Culture change means we will do things differently.

Whenever culture has gone through a radical change, as ours has - from industrial age to information age - there are people who will deny that things have changed; they resist it and refuse to change.

It's very, very hard to affect culture. And you can get surprised thinking you're farther down the path of change than you really are because, frankly, most of us like the way things are.

People don't want to embrace culture shifts because it's not going to happen in the next 20 minutes.

If our moral attitudes are entirely the result of nonrational factors, such as gut feelings and the absorption of cultural norms, they should either be stable or randomly drift over time, like skirt lengths or the widths of ties. They shouldn't show systematic change over human history. But they do.

Although, this is often used with negative connotations, I see ideology as an inherent part of culture.

There has been a shift to what may be defined as a culture of negativity which goes well beyond coverage of politics.

Cultural synthesis is how a compromise between various opinions is worked out. But truth does not change, and truth is not arrived at by some sort of compromise.

For the first time, the weird and the stupid and the coarse are becoming our cultural norms, even our cultural ideal.