"In the expanded world of mechanically
vivified communication the individual becomes the spectator of everything
but the human witness of nothing. Having no plain targets of revolt, men
feel no moral springs of revolt. The cold manner enters their souls and
they are made private and blase. In virtually all realms of life, facts
now outrun sensibility. Emptied of their human meanings, these facts are
readily got used to. In official man there is no more human shock; in his
unofficial follower there is little sense of moral issue. Within the unopposed
supremacy of impersonal, calculated technique, there is no human place
to draw the line and give the emphatic no" (The Causes of
World War III, 1958, p. 83).