Sublime

For if remembering is to be something more than nostalgia, it requires a contextual basis—a theory, a vision, a metaphor—something within which facts can be organized and patterns discerned.

In the Huxleyan prophecy, Big Brother does not watch us, by his choice. We watch him, by ours.

In a culture dominated by print, public discourse tends to be characterized by a coherent, orderly arrangement of facts and ideas.

processing information,

As a culture moves from orality to writing to printing to televising, its ideas of truth move with it. Every philosophy is the philosophy of a stage of life, Nietzsche remarked. To which we might add that every epistemology is the epistemology of a stage of media development. Truth, like time itself, is a product of a conversation man has with hims

The phrase is a means of acknowledging the fact that the world as mapped by the speeded-up electronic media has no order or meaning and is not to be taken seriously.