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Ep. 37: James Poulos: Digital Politics & Spiritual War

The Moral Imagination

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The Crisis of Television Technology

Every technological medium as Marshall McLuhan reminds us replaces the previous one in certain respects, foremost among which it has a dominant shaping influence on our inner and outer lives. When when television technology ruled the world, what happened on screen was even more important than what happened off. And so not only are we experiencing this wrenching transformation out of a society that was totally organized psychologically around the imagination, but it's one into a society where human memory is not what's replacing human imagination.

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