Electronic media support a powerhouse civilization of wealth and technical perfectionism.

Evidence

Electronics has the potential for the perfection of a utilitarian attitude and the indefinite expansion of the administrative mentality and imperial politics. Electronics, like print in its early phases, is biased toward supporting one type of civilization: a powerhouse society dedicated to wealth, power, and product- ivity, to technical perfectionism and ethical nihilism. No amount of rhetorical varnish would reverse this pattern; only the work of politics and the day-by-day attempt to maintain another and contradictory pattern of life, thought, and scholarship. — James W. Carey, Communication as Culture- Essays on…, 664

Categorization

• XREF: This applies Innis’s bias theory to the electronic age, building on the earlier chapters’ treatment of Innis and the spatial-temporal bias of media.
• corroborated: 2 independent passages support this claim — James W. Carey, Communication as Culture- Essays on…, 664