The telecitizens of the global state are all in the same boat together, and they had better face up to it. We all row with the media we have. In emulation of the barricaded squat, the home regains the allure of the medieval castle. Buried in electronic security, people think they can keep junkies, refugees, Eastern Europeans, child molestors, art thieves, intruders, rapists and other representatives of deviant behavior out the door. The paranoid fear of robbery finds it counterpart in the fear to miss out on global events.
People connect to every available channel, from the astral to the local.
Fluctuations in the dollar rate are as absorbing as the length of the reported traffic jam. In short, those who have taken up residence in the media no longer know what is going on outside. As long as the media fail to eliminate earth's biological time differences and synchronize every watch, the human remainder will keep muddling on with its private day and night rhythms. Designer drugs somewhat accelerate information processing. The new trend towards natural stimulation of the synapses of the human main processor serves no other purpose than to step up the speed of the internal clock so as to keep up with the frequency of visual alternations.