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I never knew that. A while back I was surprised to find out that Marshall McLuhan, the media theorist and pop-intellectual who was big in the late 60s and 70s w

I never knew that. A while back I was surprised to find out that Marshall McLuhan, the media theorist and pop-intellectual who was big in the late 60s and 70s was also a devout Catholic. McLuhan's ruminations into how the internet or what he called "peer to peer electronic media" would affect us socially are more insightful than anything anyone is saying today, though at the time it was largely a bunch of cryptic gobbledeygook, because at the time only naive techno-utopians had any real concept of the internet, and we're only able to predict the upsides.

lapnitnelav 8y ago
McLuhan's on the new media https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HeDnPP6ntic https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HeDnPP6ntic (starts at 2.45)
kurosawa 8y ago
His faith background plays out more explicitly in his doctoral thesis; several ideas therein were precursors to his later-popularized notions: https://www.amazon.com/Classical-Trivium-Place-Thomas-Learning/dp/1584232358 https://www.amazon.com/Classical-Trivium-Place-Thomas-Learni... Short review summarizing the work: https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Phil_Rose/publication/313487733_Review_of_The_Classical_Trivium/links/589c6e2baca272e6cd45c32b/Review-of-The-Classical-Trivium.pdf https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Phil_Rose/publication/3...