People will come to love their oppression, to adore the technologies that undo their capacities to think. Amusing Ourselves to Death: Public Discourse in the Age of Show Business (1985)
Children are the living messages we send to a time we will not see. From a biological point of view it is inconceivable that any culture will forget that it needs to reproduce itself. But it is quite possible for a culture to exist without a social idea of children. Unlike infancy, childhood is a social artifact, not a biological category. The Disappearance of Childhood (1982)