I've wasted the last five years of my life dealing in religious articles. People today find spiritual solace in ballroom dancing.
Ben KatchorThere's a real connection between the history of print in Europe and nationalism, and how those two things could be formed. I think they may both now be ending, for good and bad, but I think mainly for good. Either globalism was supposed to make people all realize this is one big business going on and we should know what's going on everywhere, or it makes people say, "I don't want to become part of this thing. I want to be incredibly different from you and I want to uphold my local behavior." Dress a certain way.
Ben KatchorI never wore a watch. I always depend on public clocks, and stores have clocks, but that is strange.
Ben KatchorI always lived in old buildings, and I thought about who lived here before. You'd have to be oblivious not to.
Ben KatchorCertain movies that are trying to evoke history are just like being in an antique store, and all you notice is that all the stuff has been gathered together, and it feels like a pile of antiques. How can you think that that will evoke the past? It doesn't even have to evoke anything, but anyway, it's how we're living. It's this moment where nobody has to immediately think too much about how things are being documented. It's a great time.
Ben Katchor