Until at last, having educated himself into imbecility, and polluted and drugged himself into stupefaction, he keeled over--a weary, battered old brontosaurus--and became extinct.
It is false because a press with the absolute, unaccountable power to mediate reality can not but induce blindness and stupefaction and incomprehension in the rest of us.
As a traveling salesman and correspondence clerk, his research and thought was time-limited: he complained of serving the knavery of merchants and the stupefaction of deceitful and degrading duties.