Flusser on Communication

"We are committed to communication despite what may be called our 'nature' as mortals and despite what may be called the 'nature' of communication. Our commitment to communication is antinatural in several senses of the term, because communication is society, and society is not natural to the human animal. Communication is that situation which causes neuroses and psychoses, and it is antinatural because communication is culture, and culture is anti-nature, since it changes nature and fights against it. Communication is antinatural, because it is history, and history is a negation of natural determination, since it is a quest for freedom. But most of all, our commitment to communication is antinatural because the process of communication is opposed in its very tendency to the process of nature. Nature as a whole is a process that tends toward entropy, towards progressive loss of information and ever-greater chaos. Human communication as a whole tends toward the progressive increase of information, towards increasingly complex organization." --Vilem Flusser