The medium is not neutral； it shapes what it conveys.
We no longer control information； it controls us.
In television， ideas must be compressed into slogans and jokes.
Television is at its most trivial when it tries to instruct.
Public discourse is transforming from rational argument into emotional performance.”
Culture does not decline by being repressed； it declines by being trivialized.
We have more technology and fewer meanings.
Technology gives us the illusion of thinking， while we merely process data.
Education has become entertainment， learning a form of amusement.
The problem is not that we laugh too much， but that we laugh about everything.