References in Popular Culture
The Necker cube is discussed to such extent in Robert J. Sawyer's 1998 science fiction novel Factoring Humanity that "Necker" becomes a verb, meaning to impel one's brain to switch from one perspective or perception to another.
In Grant Morrison's Doom Patrol comic book, issue 36/September 1990 page 14, a character named Mr. Jones, leader of one iteration of the Men from N.O.W.H.E.R.E., as well as a former member of the Men in Blue of a shadowy faction of the U.S. military, constructs a three-dimensional Necker cube out of paper, meditates upon it in order to create new agents for his organization, and calling it a "delirium box," uses it as a weapon by making others look into it.
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“The press is no substitute for institutions. It is like the beam of a searchlight that moves restlessly about, bringing one episode and then another out of darkness into vision. Men cannot do the work of the world by this light alone. They cannot govern society by episodes, incidents, and eruptions. It is only when they work by a steady light of their own, that the press, when it is turned upon them, reveals a situation intelligible enough for a popular decision.”
—Walter Lippmann (1889–1974)
“... there are some who, believing that all is for the best in the best of possible worlds, and that to-morrow is necessarily better than to-day, may think that if culture is a good thing we shall infallibly be found to have more of it that we had a generation since; and that if we can be shown not to have more of it, it can be shown not to be worth seeking.”
—Katharine Fullerton Gerould (1879–1944)