But even as mere consumers of culture, we are called to live up to the standard Christ set for His followers: «They are not of the world, just as I am not of the world... As you sent me into the world, so I have sent them into the world» (John 17:16 - 18). (relevantmagazine.com)
They also remind us of some unpleasant truths: that virtually all of us in the modern world are now mere consumers of great urbanism rather than its producers; and that this earlier vision of cities is now so far removed from the mindset of the modern world that the project of reviving great urbanism may be one best regarded in terms of generations if not centuries. (firstthings.com)