There is no connection between the elements in an electric world, which is equivalent to being surrounded by the human unconscious. (p. 260) - Marshall McLuhan

Societies have always been shaped more by the nature of the media by which humans communicate than by the content of the communication. (p. 23)

Since Sputnik there is no Nature. Nature is an item contained in a man-made environment of satellites and information.

Humor as a system of communications and as a probe of our environment — of what's really going on — affords us our most appealing anti-environmental tool. It does not deal in theory, but in immediate experience, and is often the best guide to changing perceptions.