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Yes. It's time to return to McLuhan. The medium is the message and our current media are a mess. I don't have instagram, but I sometimes overhear it while rela
by voidhorse 2y ago
Yes. It's time to return to McLuhan. The medium is the message and our current media are a mess.
I don't have instagram, but I sometimes overhear it while relatives are using it. It's a shocking experience. A series or random, wholly unrelated noises play in rapid succession, often ranging from harsh loud screams to the latest pop hit. From the outside looking in, it seems obvious that subjecting yourself to that daily would be cognitively deleterious.
- vacuity 2y agoWhat shocks me is how addictive everything is. It seems like people of mostly any age or persuasion can get into some kind of slop media or another. For video in particular, I refrain from going out of my way to watch any, but sometimes when I happen to see a friend engaged in watching, I start watching too and find it hard to escape. I can't speak to the cognitive effects confidently, but we agree on the vibe that it causes harm.