We know that communication must be hampered and its form largely determined by the unconscious but inevitable influence of a transmitting mechanism whether that be of a merely mechanical or of a physiological character.
The first reason for the preponderant influence of those Evangelicals who define themselves as advocates of Religious Right theological and political ideologies is that they have both the financial means and technological know-how to make widespread use of modern electronic forms of communication.
Geological change usually takes thousands of years to happen but we are seeing the climate changing not just in our lifetimes but also year by year.
From year to year environmental changes are incremental and often barely register in our lives but from evolutionary or geological perspectives what is happening is explosive change.
Man has a limited biological capacity for change. When this capacity is overwhelmed the capacity is in future shock.
Change is vital improvement the logical form of change.
What is sure is that technological change is accelerating in all directions and like children playing in a fountain consumers are reveling in the experience.
Logic will never change emotion or perception.
Civilization exists by geological consent subject to change without notice.
Every song has a composer every book has an author every car has a maker every painting has a painter and every building has a builder. So it isn't irrational to take this simple logic a little further and say that nature must have had a Maker. It would be irrational to believe that it made itself.
The culture is going into a psychological depression. We are concerned about our place in the world about being competitive: Will my children have as much as I have? Will I ever own my own home? How can I pay for a new car? Are immigrants taking away my white world?
I don't do something necessarily to make a big profit or because it's a logical business decision.
I was fired at the pinnacle of my career on my 39th birthday. And in the year that followed I learned that there are many psychological phases of being 'let go.'
One of the best things to come out of the home computer revolution could be the general and widespread understanding of how severely limited logic really is.
It is with children that we have the best chance of studying the development of logical knowledge mathematical knowledge physical knowledge and so forth.
Science is simply common sense at its best that is rigidly accurate in observation and merciless to fallacy in logic.
People who lean on logic and philosophy and rational exposition end by starving the best part of the mind.
People are craving this great progress in electronics going after computers the Internet etc. It's a giant progress technologically. But they must have a balance of soul a balance for human beauty. That means art has an important role.
Now I'm not saying I'm fashionable but there are sociological interests that matter to me things that are theoretical political intellectual and also concerned with vanity and beauty that we all think about but that I try to mix up and translate into fashion.
The lover knows much more about absolute good and universal beauty than any logician or theologian unless the latter too be lovers in disguise.
We especially need imagination in science. It is not all mathematics nor all logic but it is somewhat beauty and poetry.
The attitude of physiological psychology to sensations and feelings considered as psychical elements is naturally the attitude of psychology at large.
Mathematics is as it were a sensuous logic and relates to philosophy as do the arts music and plastic art to poetry.
It's art that pushes against psychological and social expectations that tries to transform decay into something generative that is replicative in a baroque way that isn't about progress and wants to - as Walt Whitman put it - 'contain multitudes.'