Famous quotes about entertaining yourself to death

1. It is impossible to express philosophy with smoke. Its form has eliminated its content.

2. Television cannot express political philosophy. The form of television is destined to be incompatible with political philosophy.

3. The most effective way to delve into a culture is to understand the tools used for conversation in this culture.

4. The unique thing about the media is that although it guides the way we see and understand things, its intervention is often not noticed.

5. The existence of every minute is not the intention of God, nor is it a product of nature, but the result of human beings using the machines they create to talk to themselves.

6. Writing will bring about a revolution in perception: the eyes will replace the ears and become the organ for language processing.

7. Metaphor is a method of revealing the essence of something by comparing it with other things.

8. To understand one thing, you must introduce another thing.

9. Our language is the medium, our medium is the metaphor, and our metaphor creates the content of our culture.

10. Through ***ming, a specific statement in a specific context acquires universal significance.

11. Truth cannot, and never has, existed without modification. He must appear in some appropriate garb, otherwise he may not be recognized, which illustrates that "truth" is a cultural bias. One culture may believe that the truth expressed in a certain symbolic form is the truest, while another culture may regard such symbolic forms as trivial and boring.

12. Nietzsche said that any philosophy is a philosophy of life at a certain stage. We should also add that any epistemology is the epistemology of a certain stage of media development. Truth, like time, is the product of man's dialogue with himself through communication technologies of his own invention.