Episode 112: Readings from the 'Book of Probes': The Mysticism of Marshall McLuhan
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The World Is Become More and More Human
We are a destructive force of nature, at least modern industrial civilization is. Some anthropologist historians are now saying that the problem started all the way back with the dawn of agriculture. I think that the damage that was done in the last 300 years outstrips anything that has been done in the ten thousand years preceding that previous so some kind of a sorcerer's apprentice event has occurred and the brooms are multiplying. But one broom is great. A million brooms multiplying is very bad. Is it unuseful to look at it as purely destructive? Should we look at it a more transhumanist way? That these technologies are transforming us and transforming the world into something that we can't
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