"Our technology forces us to live mythically"
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"When things come at you very fast, naturally you lose touch with yourself."
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"As the unity of the modern world becomes increasingly a technological rather than a social affair, the techniques of the arts provide the most valuable means of insight into the real direction of our own collective purposes."
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"The bible belt is oral territory and therefore despised by the literati."
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"Art at its most significant is a Distant Early Warning System that can always be relied on to tell the old culture what is beginning to happen to it."
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"American youth attributes much more importance to arriving at driver's license age than at voting age."
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"The cave art of Madison Avenue has been by far the most innovative and educative art form of the twentieth century."
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"We drive into the future using only our rearview mirror."
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"Obsolescence is the moment of superabundance."
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"As the age of information demands the simultaneous use of all our faculties, we discover that we are most at leisure when we are most intensely involved."
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"Great art speaks a language which every intelligent person can understand. The people who call themselves modernists today speak a different language."
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"The huge advantage of Canada is its backwardness."
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"Of the many unforeseen consequences of typography, the emergence of nationalism is, perhaps, the most familiar"
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"Information and images bump against each other every day in massive quantities, and the resonance of this interfacing is like the babble of a village or tavern gossip session."
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"Money is a poor man's credit card."
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"Violence is the quest for identity. When identity disappears with technological innovation, violence is the natural recourse."
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"Schizophrenia may be a necessary consequence of literacy."
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"When information overload occurs, pattern recognition is how to determine truth."
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"First we build the tools, then they build us."
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"The artist is the person who invents the means to bridge between biological inheritance and the environments created by technological innovation."
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