America is the only country ever founded on the printed word.
Electricity does not centralize, but decentralizes.
In antiquity and the Middle Ages reading was necessarily reading aloud.
The literate man is a sucker for propaganda...You cannot propagandize a native. You can sell him rum and trinkets, but you cannot sell him ideas.
Anything that's popular is a rear-view image.
When things come at you very fast, naturally you lose touch with yourself.