Once we have surrendered our senses and nervous systems to the private manipulation of those who would try to benefit from taking a lease on our eyes and ears and nerves, we don't really have any rights left. Leasing our eyes and ears and nerves to commercial interests is like handing over the common speech to a private corporation, or like giving the earth's atmosphere to a company as a monopoly.

First we shape our tools, thereafter they shape us

The past went that-a-way. When faced with a totally new situation, we tend always to attach ourselves to the objects, to the flavor of the most recent past. We look at the present through a rear view mirror. We march backwards into the future.

Violence, whether spiritual or physical, is a quest for identity and the meaningful. The less identity, the more violence.

Until writing was invented, man lived in acoustic space: boundless, directionless, horizonless, in the dark of the mind, in the world of emotion.

A nomadic society cannot experience enclosed space.

Radio affects most intimately, person-to-person, offering a world of unspoken communication between writer-speaker and the listener.