The bosses of our mass media, press, radio, film and television, succeed in their aim of taking our minds off disaster. Thus, the distraction they offer demands the antidote of maximum concentration on disaster.
Source: Art Against Ideology, ch. 1, 1966; tr. 1969.
-- Ernst Fischer, (Nov 10 1918-2007), German chemist, educator; He won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry, 1973.