“ Our existing models of communication are less an analysis than a contribution to the chaos of modern culture, and in important ways we are paying the penalty for the long abuse of fundamental, communicative processes in the service of politics, trade, and therapy.”1
This is a wonderful book that I reread at least annually. Carey was one of the most insightful observers of human communication during the second half of the 20th century. Read his New York Times obituary. If you are interested in communication and media, you must read this book.
1 James W. Carey, Communication as Culture: Essays on Media and Society (Boston: Unwin Hyman, 1989), p. 34.
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