With the arrival of electric technology, man extended, or set outside himself, a live model of the central nervous system itself. To the degree that this is so, it is a development that suggests a desperate and suicidal autoamputation, as if the central nervous system could no longer depend on the physical organs to be protective buffers against the slings and arrows of outrageous mechanism.

The genteel is a mighty catafalque of service-with-a-smile and flattering solicitude smothering every spontaneous movement of thought or feeling.

The ignorance of how to use knowledge stockpiles exponentially.

By phonemic trans-formation into visual terms, the alphabet became a universal, abstract, static container of meaningless sounds.

The content or time-clothing of any medium or culture is the preceding medium or culture.

Media are means of extending and enlarging our organic sense lives into our environment.

The percept takes priority of the concept.