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>The discarnate TV user lives in a world between fantasy and dream, and is in a typically hypnotic state, which is the ultimate form and level of participation.

by laotzu 11y ago

>The discarnate TV user lives in a world between fantasy and dream, and is in a typically hypnotic state, which is the ultimate form and level of participation. >The inner trip is not the sole prerogative of the LSD traveler; it’s the universal experience of TV watchers. -McLuhan

pdkl95 11y ago
> Television will achieve its apotheosis when it is interactive. > Does TV encourage, or even induce, schizophrenia? Or does it create a separate reality in conjunction with our minds, something that is neither totally our inner life nor totally TV. The networks might call that programming. - Pat Cadigan, from her forward to her short story "Patterns" > Modern cell phones are not just another technological convenience. With all they contain and all they may reveal, they hold for many Americans "the privacies of life." The fact that technologies now allow an individual to carry such information in his hand does not make the information any less worth of the protection for which the Founders fought. - Chief Justice Robers, in the majority opinion of Riley v California
- laotzu 11y ago
  For an interesting historical analysis on the subconscious effects of evolving media check out the Gutenberg Galaxy by McLuhan. While your Cadigan quote suggests TV induces schizophrenia, McLuhan asks the same question in regards to literacy and the phonetic alphabet: https://books.google.com/books?id=7K7rKIWaXXIC&pg=PR59&lpg=PR59&dq=marshall+mcluhan+gutenberg+galaxy+schizophrenia&source=bl&ots=-eVrfAUG0Q&sig=LVMj3_SKJtiyoEa3k7vKZFj_oqE&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0CCQQ6AEwAWoVChMI0pyanYnjyAIVSKQeCh3ISwwp#v=onepage&q=marshall%20mcluhan%20gutenberg%20galaxy%20schizophrenia&f=false https://books.google.com/books?id=7K7rKIWaXXIC&pg=PR59&lpg=P...