Mr. [Louis] Brandeis maintained that bigness was economically inefficient. We know today that in modern mass production, the small unit is not only inefficient, it cannot produce at all.
Peter Drucker of General Motors, "On Business," c. 1950
You go into malls and they float all kinds of Roman columns and fake images. It's Disney. It's superficial. It's mass produced. It's empty.
In this age of mass memory production and consumption, in fact, there seems to be an inverse proportion between the memorialization of the past and its contemplation and study.
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Cartoon of the Agricultural Mass Production of Suburbia, c. 1990