“Everyone’s a walking advertisement. They’ve got advertisements on their clothes. They’re walking around with Adidas written across their chest, 49ers on their hats. Jesus, it’s pathetic. It’s pitiful. The whole culture is one unified field: bought, sold, market, researched, everything.


It used to be that people permitted their own culture. It took hundreds of years, and it evolved over time, and you know that’s gone in America. People now don’t even have any concept that there ever was a culture outside of this thing that’s created to make money. Whatever is the biggest, latest thing, they’re into it. You just get disgusted after a while at humanity for not having more intellectual curiosity about what’s behind all this jive, bullshit.” R. Crumb