“ With the arrival of electric technology, man has 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 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. ”
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“ A point of view can be a dangerous luxury when substituted for insight and understanding. ”
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“ The formula for this brand of "historical" writing is to put the public on the inside; to let them feel the palpitations of royal and imperial lovers and to overhear their lispings and cooings. It can be argued that a man has to live somewhere, and that if his own time is so cut up by rapid change that he can't find a cranny big enough to relax in, then he must betake himself to the past. That is certainly one motive in the production of historical romance, from Sir Walter Scott to Thornton Wilder. But mainly this formula works as a means of flattery. The public is not only invited inside but encouraged to believe that there is nothing inside that differs from its own thoughts and feelings. This reassurance is provided by endowing historical figures with the sloppiest possible minds. The great are "humanized" by being trivial. The debunking school began by making the great appear as corrupt, or mean and egotistical. The "humanizers" have merely carried on to make them idiotic. "Democratic" vanity has reached such proportions that it cannot accept as human anything above the level of cretinous confusion of mind of the type popularized by Hemingway's heroes. Just as the new star must be made to appear successful by reason of some freak of fortune, so the great, past or present, must be made to seem so because of the most ordinary qualities, to which fortune adds an unearned trick or idea. ”
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“ Television brought the brutality of war into the comfort of the living room. Vietnam was lost in the living rooms of America — not on the battlefields of Vietnam. ”
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“ Madison Avenue is a very powerful aggression against private consciousness. A demand that you yield your private consciousness to public manipulation. ”
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“ The car has become the carapace, the protective and aggressive shell, of urban and suburban man. ”
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“ The car has become an article of dress without which we feel uncertain, unclad, and incomplete. ”
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“ Of the many unforeseen consequences of typography, the emergence of nationalism is, perhaps, the most familiar. ”
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“ The medium is the message. This is merely to say that the personal and social consequences of any medium / that is, of any extension of ourselves / result from the new scale that is introduced into our affairs by each extension of ourselves, or by any new technology. ”
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“ The car has become the carapace, the protective and aggressive shell, of urban and suburban man. ”
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“ Art at its most significant is a Distant Early Warning System that can always be relied on to tell the old culture what is beginning to happen to it. ”
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“ A point of view can be a dangerous luxury when substituted for insight and understanding. ”
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“ The name of a man is a numbing blow from which he never recovers. ”
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“ Everybody experiences far more than he understands. Yet it is experience, rather than understanding, that influences behavior. ”
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“ Everybody experiences far more than he understands. Yet it is experience, rather than understanding, that influences behavior. ”
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“ The future masters of technology will have to be light-hearted and intelligent. The machine easily masters the grim and the dumb. ”
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“ Where the whole man is involved there is no work. Work begins with the division of labor. ”
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“ A commercial society whose members are essentially ascetic and indifferent in social ritual has to be provided with blueprints and specifications for evoking the right tone for every occasion. ”
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“ It is the weak and confused who worship the pseudosimplicities of brutal directness. ”
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“ It is the weak and confused who worship the pseudosimplicities of brutal directness. ”
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“ It is the weak and confused who worship the pseudosimplicities of brutal directness. ”
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“ A successful book cannot afford to be more than ten percent new. ”
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“ The more the data banks record about each one of us, the less we exist. ”
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