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MacLuhan and others have already talked about this, from way back in the radio and TV generation. I don't say this to mean, "oh, and they were wrong because ev
by hosh 4y ago
MacLuhan and others have already talked about this, from way back in the radio and TV generation.
I don't say this to mean, "oh, and they were wrong because everything turned out OK" If anything, we have had generations that grew up with this dysfunction in a normalized way, and it took another advanced in tech to really see it again.
(To take it further back into history, I think I now get what Cervantes was trying to say with the image of Don Quxiote tilting at windmills. It seemed so absurd, amusing, and quaint when I read it as a teen).
- pixl97 4y agoIf anything TV and radio presented a larger shared reality, even if it was one filled with falsehoods. What is culture but a shared set of values? What we are growing now is a system that can give each and every one of us our own reality, and if it succeeds, what of society?
- hosh 4y agoThere are some fascinating areas to explore those questions from the perspective of shamans, mystics, and yogis.