The violence that all electric media inflict on their 
users is that they are instantly invaded and 
deprived of their physical bodies and are merged 
in a network of extensions of their own nervous 
systems. As if this were not sufficient violence or 
invasion of individual rights, the elimination of the 
physical bodies of the electric media users also 
deprives them of the means of relating the 
programme experience of their private individual 
selves, even as instant involvement supresses 
private identity.

The loss of individual and personal meaning via the 
electronic media ensures a corresponding and