Politics will eventually be replaced by imagery. The politician will be only too happy to abdicate in favor of his image, because the image will be m… - Marshall McLuhan

Cartoons drove the photo back to myth and dream screen.

Blake, in a word, sees man as fragmented by his technologies. But he insists that these technologies are self-amputations of our own organs. When so amputated, each organ becomes a closed system of great new intensity that hurls man into “martyrdoms and wars.” Moreover, Blake announces as his theme in Jerusalem the organs of perception: If Perceptive Organs vary, Objects of Perception seem to vary:
If Perceptive Organs close, their Objects seem to close also. To behold, use or perceive any extension of ourselves in technological form is necessarily to embrace it.

The "message" of any medium or technology is the change of scale or pace or pattern that it introduces into human affairs. (p. 8)