First We Build The Tools, Then They

If Men Were Able To Be Convinced That Art Is A Precise Advance Knowledge Of How To Cope With The Psychic And Social Consequences Of The Next Technology, Would They All Become Artist? Or Would They Begin A Careful Translation Of New Art Forms Into Social Navigation Charts? I Am Curious To Know What Would Happem If Art Were Suddenly Seen For What It Is, Namely, Exact Information Of How To Rearrange One's Psyche In Order To Anticipate The Next Blow From Our Own Extended Faculties.

The Only Way To Recover The Old World Is To Induce The Media Into Vomiting It Back Up.

As The Age Of Information Demands The Simultaneous Use Of All Our Faculties, We Discover That We Are Most At Leisure When We Are Most Intensely Involved.

The Fall Or Scrapping Of A Cultural World Puts Us All Into The Same Archetypal Cesspool, Engendering Nostalgia For Earlier Conditions.

We Look At The Present Through A Rear View Mirror. We March Backwards Into The Future.