Daniel J. Boorstin Quote

Not so many years ago there was no simpler or more intelligible notion than that of going on a journey. Travel — movement through space — provided the universal metaphor for change. One of the subtle confusions — perhaps one of the secret terrors — of modern life is that we have lost this refuge. No longer do we move through space as we once did.


The Image: A Guide to Pseudo-Events in America (1961)


Not so many years ago there was no simpler or more intelligible notion than that of going on a journey. Travel — movement through space —...

Not so many years ago there was no simpler or more intelligible notion than that of going on a journey. Travel — movement through space —...

Not so many years ago there was no simpler or more intelligible notion than that of going on a journey. Travel — movement through space —...

Not so many years ago there was no simpler or more intelligible notion than that of going on a journey. Travel — movement through space —...