Those who find the physical & social environments too demanding, too messy, sometimes seek to live, as far as possible, within media environments.

Arthur Bremer, the would-be assassin of George Wallace, wrote in a school essay: "I would like to think that I was living with a television family and there was no yelling at home and no one hit me."

Recently at a U.S. Army base in Germany, the commanding officer attributed the high divorce rate among his troops to the lack of English-language TV. "That means a soldier and his wife have got to talk to each other in the evenings, and suddenly they discover they really don't like each other."

I saw a girl, on video tape, talking directly into the camera:

GIRL: Let me tell you how much I love you. ...
MALE VOICE (interrupting): Tell me, not the camera.
GIRL: I can express myself better this way. ...
MALE VOICE: Look, if we can't talk to each other, maybe we shouldn't marry.
GIRL: It isn't that I don't love you. I do. But in real life you always direct me. With your eyes. This way I can tell you how I really feel.