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EP 156 James Poulos on Remaining Human

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The Transformation From Oral Toto Alphabetic Culture

The transformation from oral toto alphabetic culture was massive. The scribal era is replaced by what mc lean called the gutenberg galaxy, the world of print. These tools that we create different mediums have effects on us which we do not intend and which oftentimes we don't understand. You can get all these crazily wrong presentations of formal cause with aristotle's theory of causation. This is a kind of causation that's much more environmental. And so these are things that are noquite easy to understand in the internutally portrayed way they're often portrayed.

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