Irena James

“In the psychology of aesthetics, there is a name for the moment between the anxiety of confronting something new and the satisfying click of understanding it. It is called an 'aesthetic aha.”
― Derek Thompson, Hit Makers: The Science of Popularity in an Age of Distraction

“In a consumer society there are inevitably two kinds of slaves: the prisoners of addiction and the prisoners of envy.”
― Ivan Illich

“This was possible only because the anti-slavery movement coincided with an era in which Western power and hegemony were at their zenith, so that it was essentially European imperialism which ended slavery. This idea might seem shocking, not because it does not fit the facts, but because it does not fit the prevailing vision of our time.”
― Thomas Sowell, Black Rednecks & White Liberals

“The trick is learning to frame your new ideas as tweaks of old ideas, to mix a little fluency with a little disfluency—to make your audience see the familiarity behind the surprise.”
― Derek Thompson, Hit Makers: The Science of Popularity in an Age of Distraction