TV has begun to dissolve the fabric of American life. 
All the assumptions, all the ground rules—based on 
visuality, superficiality, blueprinting, connectedness, 
equality, sameness—disappear in TV.

G.E. Stearn, “A Dialogue—Marshall McLuhan and 
G.E. Stearn,” in McLuhan: Hot & Cool , edited by G.E. 
Stearn, (New York, 1967), p. 271.