Everything is changing. The Medium Is so ubiquitous we often become unaware of it. Which is no small part of the problem. We dwell totally within technological media today and observe it less and less.
But (practicing Catholic) Marshall McLuhan saw it clearly and tried to warn us of what was coming — and how it would likely be manipulated.
How do we protect ourselves? Already the Word (Jn. 1:1) can appear to be drowning in media words. How will young people differentiate Him from simply more technological data?
Wikipedia:
“McLuhan coined the expression “the medium is the message“[11] in the first chapter in his Understanding Media: The Extensions of Man[12] and the term global village. He predicted the World Wide Web almost 30 years before it was invented.[13] He was a fixture in media discourse in the late 1960s, though his influence began to wane in the early 1970s.[14] In the years following his death, he continued to be a controversial figure in academic circles.[15] However, with the arrival of the Internet and the World Wide Web, interest was renewed in his work and perspectives”.
Q: What was the Bonanza McLuhan said people in the Space Age kept retreating to?
Influenced (per Wikipedia)
Jean Baudrillard, Norbert Bolz, John Cage, Douglas Coupland, Merce Cunningham, Jacques Derrida, Mark Fisher, Dick Higgins,
Abbie Hoffman, Hugh Kenner Jacques Languirand, Timothy Leary, Paul Levinson, Terence McKenna, Ann Nocenti, Walter J. Ong, Neil Postman, Douglas Rushkoff, Gerd Stern, Nelson Thall, William Irwin Thompson,Wired
McLuhan was influenced by Chesterton.
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