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baldur@toot.cafe ("Baldur Bjarnason") wrote:
This spectrum of "reading" (despite being very annoying McLuhan was right to avoid a binary dichotomy and instead use the metaphor of a temperature range) have existed for a long long time but have only really become unbalanced in a problematic way over the past few decades
This is quite specifically what Neil Postman was warning us about in "Amusing Ourselves to Death" in 1985 and his warning ran up against the same wall that blocked other predictions such as that of global climate change: