The unformulated message of an assembly of news items from every quarter of the globe is that the world today is one city. All war is civil war. All … - Marshall McLuhan

Radio provides a speed-up of information that also causes acceleration in other media. It certainly contracts the world to village size and creates insatiable village tastes for gossip, rumour, and personal malice. (p. 24)

Philosophy was as naive as science in its unconscious acceptance of the assumptions or dynamic of typography. (p. 278)

Thus, as passivity becomes extreme in the bulk of society, a sizeable segment of citizens detaches itself from the dream-locked majority. As vulgarity and stupidity thicken, more and more people awaken to the intolerability of their condition. Much can be done to foster this state of awareness, even though little can be done directly to change the policies of those in control today of the media of communication.