W h y
"We have to raise the consciousness. The only way poets can change the world is to raise the consciousness of the general populace."
- Lawrence Ferlinghetti
W h e r e f o r e
"All the world's a stage..."
- Billy Shears
"Civilization is entirely the product of phonetic literacy. As it dissolves with the electronic revolution, we rediscover a tribal integral awareness that manifests itself in a complete shift in our sensory lives....This new electronic environment itself constitutes an inner trip, collectively, without benefit of drugs. The impulse to use hallucinogens is a kind of empathy with the electronic environment."
- Marshall McLuhan
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