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Eric McLuhan & Nikita Petrov (full conversation)

The Massage: Presented by The McLuhan Institute

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What Is Detachment?

Plato and aristotle were not happy with this practice of mimesis, were they? A well, the trouble was there was a new game in town. The socratic and posocratic philosophers are all wanted people to a b usea thing called detachment. And menasis is the enemy of detachment. Cemasis is an absolute, complete involvement. So these two things were completely at war with each other. For detachment, you head to be able to reason and think in the mind for without speech. That was impossible. Foe platos. Once you could write down words, you had now three ways to experience language,. whereas before there was only one.

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