The family circle has widened. The worldpool of information fathered by the electric media--movies, Telstar, flight--far surpassesany possible influence mom and dad can now bring to bear. Character no longer is shaped by only two earnest, fumbling experts. Now all the world's a sage.
Canadians are the people who learned to live without the bold accents of the natural ego-trippers of other lands.
All meaning alters with acceleration, because all patterns of personal and political interdependence change with any acceleration of information.
Art at its most significant is a Distant Early Warning System that can always be relied on to tell the old culture what is beginning to happen to it.
Most clear writing is a sign that there is no exploration going on. Clear prose indicates the absence of thought.
The medium is the message.
Any loss of identity prompts people to seek reassurance and rediscovery of themselves by testing, and even by violence. Today, the electric revolution, the wired planet, and the information environment involve everybody in everybody to the point of individual extinction.
If people were able to be convinced that art is precise advance knowledge of how to cope with the psychic and social consequences of the next technology, would they all become artists?
For the satiated, both sex and speed are pretty boring until the element of danger and even death is introduced.
The car has become an article of dress without which we feel uncertain, unclad, and incomplete in the urban compound.
It is the framework which changes with each new technology and not just the picture within the frame.
Today, the mass audience (the successor to the "public") can be used as a creative, participating force. It is, instead, merely given packages of passive entertainment. Politics offers yesterday's answers to today's questions.
We drive into the future using only our rearview mirror.
Today we are beginning to notice that the new media are not just mechanical gimmicks for creating worlds of illusion, but new languages with new and unique powers of expression.
The photograph reverses the purpose of travel, which until now had been to encounter the strange and unfamiliar.
The modern nose, like the modern eye, has developed a sort of microscopic, intercellular intensity which makes our human contactspainful and revolting.
I'm not sure who discovered water, but I'm pretty sure it wasn't a fish.
There is no individualism in Eastern or oral cultures.
The cave art of Madison Avenue has been by far the most innovative and educative art form of the twentieth century.
Food for the mind is like food for the body: the inputs are never the same as the outputs.
The suddenness of the leap from hardware to software cannot but produce a period of anarchy and collapse, especially in the developed countries.
Good taste is the first refuge of the non creative. It is the last ditch stand of the artist.
Human perception is literally incarnation.
TV acting is so extremely intimate, because of the peculiar involvement of the viewer with the completion or "closing" of the TV image, that the actor must achieve a great degree of spontaneous casualness that would be irrelevant in movie and lost on the stage. For the audience participates in the inner life of the TV actor as fully as in the outer life of the movie star. Technically, TV tends to be a close-up medium. The close-up that in the movie is used for shock is, on TV, a quite casual thing.
American youth attributes much more importance to arriving at driver's license age than at voting age.
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