“To conceive reality is to reduce it to possibility — but in that case it is impossible to conceive it, because to conceive it is to reduce it to possibility, and consequently not to hold fast to it as reality. Compared with reality to conceive is a step backwards and not progress. Not as though ‘reality’ were not conceivable; not at all, no, the concept which results from reducing it to possibility by conceiving is also in reality, but there is something more — that is reality.”
“Liberated from the contents of communication, the addressee of the messages of the mass media receives only a global ideological lesson, the call to narcotic passiveness. When the mass media triumph, the human being dies.”
