The discovery of printing in the middle of the fifteenth century implied the beginning of a return to a type of civilization dominated by the eye rather than the ear.

Democracy will defeat the economist at every turn on its own genre.

Industrialism implies technology and the cutting of time into precise fragments suited to the needs of the engineer and the accountant.

The effect of the discovery of printing was evident in the savage religious wars of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. Application of power to communication industries hastened the consolidation of vernaculars, the rise of nationalism, revolution, and new outbreaks of savagery in the twentieth century.

The Middle Ages burned its heretics and the modern age threatens them with atom bombs.

The mixture of the oral and the written traditions in the writings of Plato enabled him to dominate the history of the West.

The overwhelming pressure of mechanization evident in the newspaper and the magazine, has led to the creation of vast monopolies of communication. Their entrenched positions involve a continuous, systematic, ruthless destruction of elements of permanence essential to cultural activity.