La Nausee [by Sartre] reads like a B.O. ad.

Thus the English and American cultures in particular were overwhelmed by print, since in the 16th century they had only rudimentary defences to set up against the new printed word. The rest of Europe, richer in plastic and oral culture, was less blitzed by the printing press. And the Orient has so far had many kinds of resistance to offer.

“Indeed, the frequency of intercourse may decrease in the future because of a real revolution in attitudes toward, feelings about, and uses of sex, especially concerning the roles of male and female. What are those young men with long, flowing hair really saying.”

Everything from politics to bottle-feeding, global landscape, and the subconscious of the infant is subject to the manipulation of conscious artistic control—the BBC carries the unrehearsed voice of the nightingale to the Congo, the Eskimo sits entranced by hill-billy music from West Tennessee.

We must maximize rather than minimize the various features of our new media. It's easy now to see that they are not mere vehicles for already achieved experience and insight. We have moved far beyond mechanization. Let us not lose ourselves by supposing that we have merely to contend with new forms of mechanization. Radio and TV aren't new ways of handling manuscript and book culture. The motor-car wasn't a substitute for the horse. It did what the horse could never do.

Like any other medium, [money] is a staple, a natural resource. As an outward and visible form of the urge to change and to exchange, it is a corporate image, depending on society for its institutional status.

The funny man as a professional clown puts on the corporate mask of a collective grievance. Jack Benny's stingy grimace and W. C. Fields' choleric profile serve to siphon off great stores of collective irritation and frustration in a society. 

Why should the broken lines of the television mosaic emphasize the sculptural contours of objects?

Why has sculpture traditionally been spoken of as the voice of silence?

Speech as organized stutter is based on time. What does speech do to space?

If speech is organized stutter, is [unspeaking] stutter disorganized speech?

Indeed, the long-haired boys' appeal is not aesthetic, but sexual, not private, but corporate.

This job must be conducted on every front – every phase of the press, book-rackets, music, cinema, education, economics. Of course, points of reference must always be made. That is, the examples of real art and prudence must be seized, when available, as paradigms of future effort. In short, the methods of F.R. Leavis and Wyndham Lewis applied with all the energy and order denied them from faith and philosophy – These can serve to educate a huge public, both Catholic and non-Catholic, to resist the swift obliteration of the person which is going on.

The average parent today should be detained in a mental-delousing institution until cleansed of the verminous accretions of pseudo philosophy acquired while rolling around in the Circe of sensate culture.

The reader is a moron who has to be babied, tickled, prodded, propped and paddled.