During the heat of the of the 2016 presidential campaign some thoughtful observers mused that if Donald Trump became president, the White House would become a TV reality show. We are now watching The Apprentice.

Monday, September 30, 2013. The point of the Narcissus myth is not that people are prone to fall in love with their own images but that people fall in love with extensions of themselves which they are convinced are not extensions of themselves. This provides, I think, a fairly good image of all of our technologies, and it directs us towards a basic issue, the idolatry of technology as involving a psychic numbness. Best Actor in a Discontinuous Role? Virtual Maastricht .

Marshall McLuhan sampled, critiqued, quoted, and misunderstood.

Cousin- Mike is riding again. Cousin- Mike is riding again. The Yardbirds - BBC Unreleased. Keith Relf, Paul Samwell-Smith, Jim McCarty, Chris Dreja, Jeff Beck, Jimmy Page. Unreleased BBC performances recorded off the air in England over 40 years ago.

The English novelist George Orwell once observed that in a time of universal deceit, telling the truth becomes a revolutionary act.