The young today cannot follow narrative but they are alert to drama. They cannot bear description but they love landscape and action.

People hope that if they scream loudly enough about "values" then others will mistake them for serious, sensitive souls who have higher and nobler perceptions than ordinary people. Otherwise, why would they be screaming? Moral bitterness is a basic technique for endowing the idiot with dignity.

The new media are not bridges between man and nature - they are nature...

Information and images bump against each other every day in massive quantities, and the resonance of this interfacing is like the babble of a village or tavern gossip session.

Since with electricity we extend our central nervous system globally, instantly interrelating every human experience.

When people become too intense, too serious, they will have trouble in relating to any sort of social game or norm. Perhaps this is why jokes are so important. On one hand they tell us about where the problems and grievances are, and, at the same time, they provide the means of enduring these grievances by laughing at the problems.

The ignorance of how to use knowledge stockpiles exponentially.