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The Spectacle We Find In True Religions Has As Its Purpose Enchantment, Not Entertainment. The Distinction Is Critical. By Endowing Things With Magic, Enchantment Is A Means Through Which We May Gain Access To Sacredness. Entertainment Is The Means Through Which We Distance Ourselves From It.

Public Schooling Does Not Serve A Public; It Creates A Pubic.

Reading Is The Scourge Of Childhood Because, In A Sense, It Creates Adulthood.

I Am Not A Luddite. I Am Suspicious Of Technology. I Am Perfectly Aware Of Its Benefits, But I Also Try To Pay Attention To Some Of The Negative Effects.

The Way In Which The Photograph Records Experience Is Also Different From The Way Of Language. Language Makes Sense Only When It Is Presented As A Sequence Of Propositions. Meaning Is Distorted When A Word Or Sentence Is, As We Say, Taken Out Of Context; When A Reader Or Listener Is Deprived Of What Was Said Before, And After. But There Is No Such Thing As A Photograph Taken Out Of Context, For A Photograph Does Not Require One. In Fact, The Point Of Photography Is To Isolate Images From Context, So As To Make Them Visible In A Different Way.