“The age of electronic communication has allowed a hammer blow against privacy, Clive James writes, but even the last bastion, the humble letter, is under threat.”

We ALREADY live in a constantly- surveilled world, technologically bonded and even via email and Internet -spied upon by all those around us, all immersed in a Ballardian “constant techno- consciousness” that even reaches into our private written letters.

…”You can be in the biggest city in the world, and every phone you pick up, and every computer you sit down at, is a direct pipeline to universal publicity for any thought you dare to express.” — JGB predicted this LONG ago. I quote Mr James further: “…nobody has invented a mind- reading device yet, although I have noticed that some of the latest mobile telephones are small enough to crawl into your ear.”

SEE: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0086541/quotes

“Brian O’Blivion: The battle for the mind of North America will be fought in the video
arena: the Videodrome. The television screen is the retina of the mind’s eye.

Therefore, the television screen is part of the physical structure of the brain.
Therefore, whatever appears on the television screen emerges as raw experience for
those who watch it. Therefore, television is reality, and reality is less than television.”
…..
Barry Convex: “You’ll forgive me if I don’t stay around to watch. I just can’t cope with the
freaky stuff.”
…..
Max Renn(played by James Woods) “I’m looking for something that’ll… break through. You know?”

“CIVIC TV- THE ONE YOU TAKE TO BED WITH YOU” – Videodrome….

– Professor Bryan O’Blivion in VIDEODROME, the awesome
1983 movie by David Cronenberg…..see:

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0086541/

“I never appear on television except “on television” …..
Prof. Bryan O’Blivion, same film…..

“LONG LIVE THE NEW FLESH!”
—- His daughter Bianca O’Blivion….