As individuals and as a nation, we now suffer from social narcissism. The beloved Echo of our ancestors, the virgin America. has been abandoned. We have fallen in love with our own image, with images of our making, which turn out to be images of ourselves.

— Daniel J. Boorstin The Image: A Guide to Pseudo-Events in America (1961)

More quotes by Daniel J. Boorstin

The Creators: A History of Heroes of the Imagination (1992)

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

The Republic of Technology (1978)

The Lost World of Thomas Jefferson (1948)

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