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As a kid growing up in the 1950s I became acutely aware of the changes taking place in American culture and I must say I didn't much like it. I witnessed the debasement of architecture, and I could see a decline in the quality of things like comic books and toys, things made for kids. Old things seemed to have more life, more substance, more humanity in them.

— Robert Crumb The R. Crumb Handbook by Robert Crumb and Peter Poplaski (2005)

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I’m an outsider. I will always be an outsider.

Industrial civilization figured out how to manufacture popular culture and sell it back to the people. You have to marvel at the ingenuity of it!

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When I come up against the real world, I just vacillate.

Before industrial civilization, local and regional communities made their own music, their own entertainment.

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