How to Read a Book: the classic guide to intelligent reading

by Mortimer J. Adler

One of the reasons for this situation is that the very media we have mentioned are so designed as to make thinking seem unnecessary

Prescient about influence of the media propaganda today.

Catching the ball is just as much an activity as pitching or hitting it. The pitcher or batter is the sender in the sense that his activity initiates the motion of the ball. The catcher or fielder is the receiver in the sense that his activity terminates it.