"All over the place, from the popular culture to the propaganda system, there is constant pressure to make people feel that they are helpless, that the only role they can have is to ratify decisions and to consume." (Noam Chomsky)

"The man who reads nothing at all is better educated than the man who reads nothing but newspapers." (Thomas Jefferson, 1743-1826)

Is the death of distance nearer to us than our jugular vein?