zeit·geist

- noun
1. the spirit of the time; the taste and outlook characteristic of a period or generation.

per·ni·cious

– adj.
1. causing insidious harm or ruin; ruinous; injurious; hurtful.
2. deadly; fatal.
3. evil; wicked.

"A theory is a complicated piece of machinery; it only needs the displacement of one unit or part to make it go wrong, or fall to pieces."
- Herbert Read

"Education is ideally civil defense against media fall-out."
- Marshall McLuhan