
Eric McLuhan & Nikita Petrov (full conversation)
The Massage: Presented by The McLuhan Institute
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The Society of Ancient Greece Was Thinking in Images
The way a chinese thinks, and a german or russian literte, is writing with images. A man the hous sl boards on a blackboard - that's an image. Andyour sylogizing, you don't even get back. Images. Don't have anything. No picture at all. There is no correlation between the chinese character and soundsprobaly. And for that reason, the ch Chinese character can be used to write any language. In china, there are hundreds of languages and dialects of chinese, but every single one of them can communicate exactly with every other one using precisely the same characters. ther are not sounds, theyre not works
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