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Instant communication is not communication at all but merely a frantic, trivial, nerve-wracking bombardment of cliches, threats, fads, fashions, gibberish and advertising.

Instant communication is not communication at all but merely a frantic, trivial, nerve-wracking bombardment of cliches, threats, fads, fashions, gibberish and advertising.

Edward Abbey
Fashion, Communication, Nerves
Edward Abbey (2006). “Postcards from Ed: Dispatches and Salvos from an American Iconoclast”

I'd sooner exchange ideas with the birds on earth than learn to carry on intergalactic communications with some obscure race of humanoids on a satellite planet from the world of Betelgeuse.

Edward Abbey
Communication, Race, Ideas
Edward Abbey (1988). “Desert Solitaire”, p.7, University of Arizona Press

To the Technocrats: Have mercy on us. Relax a bit, take time out for simple pleasures. For example, the luxuries of electricity, indoor plumbing, central heating, instant electronic communication and such, have taught me to relearn and enjoy the basic human satisfactions of dipping water from a cold clear mountain stream; of building a wood fire in a cast-iron stove; of using long winter nights for making music, making things, making love; of writing long letters, in longhand with a fountain pen, to the few people on this earth I truly care about.

Edward Abbey
Communication, Writing, Winter
Edward Abbey (2006). “Postcards from Ed: Dispatches and Salvos from an American Iconoclast”

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