Americans no longer talk to each other, they entertain each other. They do not exchange ideas, they exchange images. They do not argue with propositions; they argue with good looks, celebrities and commercials.
A metaphor is not an ornament. It is an organ of perception. Through metaphors, we see the world as one thing or another.
Language has an ideological agenda that is apt to be hidden from view.
The clearest way to see through a culture is to attend to its tools for conversation.
It is not necessary to conceal anything from a public insensible to contradiction and narcotized by technological diversions.
Marx understood well that the press was not merely a machine but a structure for discourse, which both rules out and insists upon certain kinds of content and, inevitably, a certain kind of audience.
…people will come to love their oppression, to adore the technologies that undo their capacities to think.
It is not necessary to conceal anything from a public insensible to contradiction and narcoticized by technological diversions
What’s wrong with turning back the clock if the clock is wrong? We need not be slaves to our technologies
In every tool we create, an idea is embedded that goes beyond the function of the thing itself.
Typography fostered the modern idea of individuality, but it destroyed the medieval sense of community and integration
Without a purpose, schools are houses of detention, not attention
With television, we vault ourselves into a continuous, incoherent present.
If students get a sound education in the history, social effects and psychological biases of technology, they may grow to be adults who use technology rather than be used by it.