Formal logic and the logical syllogism encapsulate connectedness in reasoning. - Marshall McLuhan

The difference between the man of print and the man of scribal culture is nearly as great as that between the non-literate and the literate.

The press is a group confessional form that provides communal participation. The book is a private confessional form that provides a “point of view.” (p. 204)

Jacques Ellul observes in Propaganda: When dialogue begins, propaganda ends. His theme, that propaganda is not this or that ideology but rather the action and coexistence of all media at once, explains why propaganda is environmental and invisible. The total life of any culture tends to be "propaganda", for this reason. It blankets perception and supresses awareness, making the counter environments created by the artist indispensable to survival and freedom. (p.77)