Tuesday, May 25, 2010

Postman: the really weird thing

There is no more disturbing consequence of the electronic and graphic revolution than this:  that the world as given to us through television seems natural, not bizarre.

For the loss of the sense of strange is a sign of adjustment, and the extent to which we have been adjusted is a measure of the extent to which we have been changed.

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1 comment:

Unknown said...

Two beautiful poems by Ted Hughes kind of sum up this idea of our separation from what is real and natural. They are 'Roe Deer' and 'The Stag'.