The Past Is Strapped To Our Backs.

You Cannot Avoid Making Judgements But You Can Become More Conscious Of The Way In Which You Make Them. This Is Critically Important Because Once We Judge Someone Or Something We Tend To Stop Thinking About Them Or It.

When A Population Becomes Distracted By Trivia, When Cultural Life Is Redefined As A Perpetual Round Of Entertainments, When Serious Public Conversation Becomes A Form Of Baby-talk, When, In Short, A People Become An Audience, And Their Public Business A Vaudeville Act, Then A Nation Finds Itself At Risk; Culture-death Is A Clear Possibility.

Television Screens Saturated With Commercials Promote The Utopian And Childish Idea That All Problems Have Fast, Simple, And Technological Solutions. You Must Banish From Your Mind The Naive But Commonplace Notion That Commercials Are About Products. They Are About Products In The Same Sense That The Story Of Jonah Is About The Anatomy Of Whales.

Remember: In Order For A Perception To Change One Must Be Frustrated In One's Actions Or Change One's Purpose.

The Problem In The 19th Century With Information Was That We Lived In A Culture Of Information Scarcity, And So Humanity Addressed That Problem Beginning With Photography And Telegraphy And The - In The 1840s. We Tried To Solve The Problem Of Overcoming The Limitations Of Space, Time, And Form.