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More and more we see ourselves being translated into the form of information, moving toward the technological extension of consciousness. |
Today it is not the classroom nor the classics which are the repositories of models of eloquence, but the ad agencies. |
The modern Little Red Riding Hood, reared on singing commercials, has no objection to being eaten by the wolf. |
Behind every joke is a grievance. And without the grievance there'd be no joke. |
Ads are news. More pain and thought, more wit and art, go into the making of an ad than into any prose feature of press or magazine. |
Everybody at the speed of light tends to become a nobody. |
@lonelysandwich If you would like me to direct mail you I'll need your postal address. |
Had an excellent dinner and late night conversation with @David_Ogilvy last night. Truly a first class host. |
Today the monarchy of print has ended and an oligarchy of new media has usurped most of the power of that 500 year old monarchy. |
@David_Ogilvy I also have some thoughts on this new technology the department of defense is building called ARPANET. Limitless possibilities |
@pennjillette I couldn't agree with you more. |
@David_Ogilvy Sounds great. It's been a while since we've been able to get together. I have a few ideas I think you'd enjoy. |
Violence, whether spiritual or physical, is a quest for identity and the meaningful. The less identity, the more violence. |
Today, the wired planet and the information environment involves everybody in everybody to the point of individual extinction. |
Canadians are all a very humble bunch. They take it for granted that everything they do must be second-rate. |
There are many reasons why most people prefer to live in the age just behind them. It's safer. Life on the frontier of change is terrifying |
The best way to oppose something is to fully understand it. |
In our new electronic age, we are all just an item in a databank - software only, easily forgotten - and deeply resentful. |
The media tend to make everybody puny, while offering them the opportunity to be supermen. |
America is falling apart physically and politically because of the speed of information. Our bureaucracy was set up for very slow speeds. |
