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

The tribalizing power of the new electronic media, the way in which they return to us to the unified fields of the old oral cultures, to tribal cohesion and pre-individualist patterns of thought, is little understood. Tribalism is the sense of the deep bond of family, the closed society as the norm of community.

The TV generation is postliterate and retribalized. It seeks by violence to scrub the old private image and to merge in a new tribal identity, like any corporate executive. (p. 201)

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