Only the small secrets need to be protected. The large ones are kept secret by public incredulity.
The new is always made up of the old, or rather, what people see in the new is always the old thing. The rear-view mirror. The future of the future is the present, and this is something that people are terrified of.
Computers can do better than ever what needn't be done at all. Making sense is still a human monopoly.
A point of view can be a dangerous luxury when substituted for insight and understanding.
The ordinary person senses the greatness of the odds against him even without thought or analysis, and he adapts his attitudes unconsciously. A huge passivity has settled on industrial society. For people carried about in mechanical vehicles, earning their living by waiting on machines, listening much of the waking day to canned music, watching packaged movie entertainment and capsulated news, for such people it would require an exceptional degree of awareness and an especial heroism of effort to be anything but supine consumers of processed goods.
Violence, whether spiritual or physical, is a quest for identity and the meaningful. The less identity, the more violence.
Everybody experiences far more than he understands. Yet it is experience, rather than understanding, that influences behavior.
The tribalizing power of the new electronic media, the way in which they return to us to the unified fields of the old oral cultures, to tribal cohesion and pre-individualist patterns of thought, is little understood. Tribalism is the sense of the deep bond of family, the closed society as the norm of community.
Don't ask whether it is right or wrong. Instead try to find out what is going on.
Like primitive, we now live in a global village of our own making, a simultaneous happening. It doesn't necessarily mean harmony and peace and quiet but it does mean huge involvement in everybody else's affairs.
Art is anything you can get away with.
The medium is the message. This is merely to say that the personal and social consequences of any medium - that is, of any extension of ourselves - result from the new scale that is introduced into our affairs by each extension of ourselves, or by any new technology.
Today the tyrant rules not by club or fist, but disguised as a market researcher, he shepherds his flocks in the ways of utility and comfort.
Man works when he is partially involved. When he is totally involved he is at play or leisure.
In the land of the blind, the one-eyed man is a hallucinating idiot...for he sees what no one else does: things that, to everyone else, are not there.
Technology is that which separates us from our environment.
Time’ has ceased, 'space' has vanished. We now live in a global village... a simultaneous happening
The successor to politics will be propaganda. Propaganda, not in the sense of a message or ideology, but as the impact of the whole technology of the times.
The poet, the artist, the sleuth, whoever sharpens our perception tends to antisocial; rarely 'well adjusted,' he cannot go along with currents and trends.
As a rule, I always look for what others ignore.
The answers are always inside the problem, not outside.
"Work" does not exist in a nonliterate world. The primitive hunter or fisherman did no work, any more than does the poet, painter, or thinker of today. Where the whole man is involved there is no work.
What is very little understood about the electronic age is that it angelizes man, disembodies him. Turns him into software.
Diaper backward spells repaid. Think about it.
Politics offers yesterday's answers to today's problems.
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