All media work us over completely.

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 news automatically becomes the real world for the TV user and is not a substitute for reality, but is itself an immediate reality.

Erwin Schrodinger has explained how he and his fellow physicists had agreed that they would report their new discoveries and experiments in quantum physics in the language of Newtonian physics. That is, they agreed to discuss and report the non-visual, electronic world in the language of the visual world of Newton.

Faced with information overload, we have no alternative but pattern-recognition.

Human perception is literally incarnation.

Computers can do better than ever what needn't be done at all. Making sense is still a human monopoly.