Piero Scaruffi quotes

Mass culture is a way to escape from the psychological suffering that comes with that insight into the human condition, an escape alternative to the one preached by world religions. Mass culture is a modern invention to escape from existential anguish. (Piero Scaruffi)

Zappa was not a protester or an activist. He was merely a man who used his brain.

Piero Scaruffi

Trump is not an idiot at all, but those who voted for him are.

Piero Scaruffi

If you tend to text and skim the surface of the Internet, you indirectly shape your mind to only deal with superficial matters.

Piero Scaruffi

...but defining their sound was Little Girls, an exuberant ska wrapped in an electronic patina, with modernist vocals à la XTC and a touch of dementia.

Piero Scaruffi

I really think we should modify the law so that one can be sued for defaming not only living people but also the memory and reputation of people who died centuries ago.

Piero Scaruffi

Philosophy is the art of saying something incredibly stupid and making it sound incredibly intelligent.

Piero Scaruffi

Michael Brown was a thug.

Piero Scaruffi

Beatles' "aryan" music removed any trace of black music from rock and roll: it replaced syncopated african rhythm with linear western melody, and lusty negro attitudes with cute white-kid smiles.

Piero Scaruffi

If the cop honestly felt that this was a young black man (as politically incorrect as it sounds, this is the most violent category of people in the USA in 2014) aiming a gun at him, the cop can hardly be blamed for shooting first.

Piero Scaruffi

Piero Scaruffi

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Occupation: Italian-American Writer
Born: 1955
Quotes count: 10
Wikipedia: Piero Scaruffi

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