That’s funny, but I don’t think they should worry about it. Nobody gives a crap about Yasser Arafat. There’s really annexation of Gaza will be completed in 26 and that will be that. Should’ve been done 50 years ago.
I studied under Marshall McLuhan’s son, Eric at York university. Both are gone now, but I will speak for them (silly me).
There is no more deterministic theory than espoused in McLuhan’s ‘s “understanding media”. He says Our inventions are extensions of ourselves; They re-order how we live on a scale that dwarfs how we use those inventions. Gutenberg and moveable type face leads to Protestantism and all that entails. Scholars of Catholicism could probably opine on that topic: yes, lol.
McLuhan says that Guttenberg gave birth to a new galaxy. I would say that’s deterministic.
But the big invention for Marshall was electricity which he described as the extension of our human nervous system to envelop the entire earth and all its inhabitants. Electricity usurped time and space, so, instantinaity is now the immutable ordering principle, and thereby collapsed the world into a global village (tada!). Like it or not we all now live cheek by jowl, all perspectives all voices available to all in a deafening din.
Re-civilize or die: it’s not up to us. Instant communication planet wide eliminates any opportunity to return from whence we came. The McLuhans, father and son would admonish you and in no uncertain terms. Your failure is from the start: recivilize is not an option. It is no longer available. The medium is the message is a truism of which you fall afoul. It is wishful thinking, this business about return. As Catholic scholars is not the ongoing and endless dilution of Christs teaching by wishy-washy Protestantism sufficient proof of the McLuhan theory. Protestantism has killed Christianity. The churches are empty because the message is meaningless. Out here on the hustings we are not smart, but we do have intuition. We realize the church is of no value. Its message is deluted unto irrelevance: it is meaningless. I think any good Catholic scholar would argue that Protestantism is the embrace of meaninglessness.
The point of electricity and instantaneity is that the availability of all messages simultaneously renders all meaning moot. And this is not about to change, so there will be no return. So say the McLuhans.
We are not going to recivilize we are going to collapse. It is told.
Pilkington treats liberalism as a zombie — empty shell beyond resurrection — yet fails to account how liberalism’s core achievements (individual rights, pluralism, institutions, rule of law) emerged from, and responded to, centuries of social conflict. His post-liberal remedy reads like a second coming of Christian-classical autocracy, thinly inventive but tyrannical in epistemic posture. The specter of illiberal renewal outranks his diagnosis: fewer cures, more incantations of civilizational doom.
Suggest 'PLO' may not be the most felicitous acronym for the Post-Liberal Order.
That’s funny, but I don’t think they should worry about it. Nobody gives a crap about Yasser Arafat. There’s really annexation of Gaza will be completed in 26 and that will be that. Should’ve been done 50 years ago.
I studied under Marshall McLuhan’s son, Eric at York university. Both are gone now, but I will speak for them (silly me).
There is no more deterministic theory than espoused in McLuhan’s ‘s “understanding media”. He says Our inventions are extensions of ourselves; They re-order how we live on a scale that dwarfs how we use those inventions. Gutenberg and moveable type face leads to Protestantism and all that entails. Scholars of Catholicism could probably opine on that topic: yes, lol.
McLuhan says that Guttenberg gave birth to a new galaxy. I would say that’s deterministic.
But the big invention for Marshall was electricity which he described as the extension of our human nervous system to envelop the entire earth and all its inhabitants. Electricity usurped time and space, so, instantinaity is now the immutable ordering principle, and thereby collapsed the world into a global village (tada!). Like it or not we all now live cheek by jowl, all perspectives all voices available to all in a deafening din.
Re-civilize or die: it’s not up to us. Instant communication planet wide eliminates any opportunity to return from whence we came. The McLuhans, father and son would admonish you and in no uncertain terms. Your failure is from the start: recivilize is not an option. It is no longer available. The medium is the message is a truism of which you fall afoul. It is wishful thinking, this business about return. As Catholic scholars is not the ongoing and endless dilution of Christs teaching by wishy-washy Protestantism sufficient proof of the McLuhan theory. Protestantism has killed Christianity. The churches are empty because the message is meaningless. Out here on the hustings we are not smart, but we do have intuition. We realize the church is of no value. Its message is deluted unto irrelevance: it is meaningless. I think any good Catholic scholar would argue that Protestantism is the embrace of meaninglessness.
The point of electricity and instantaneity is that the availability of all messages simultaneously renders all meaning moot. And this is not about to change, so there will be no return. So say the McLuhans.
We are not going to recivilize we are going to collapse. It is told.
Pilkington treats liberalism as a zombie — empty shell beyond resurrection — yet fails to account how liberalism’s core achievements (individual rights, pluralism, institutions, rule of law) emerged from, and responded to, centuries of social conflict. His post-liberal remedy reads like a second coming of Christian-classical autocracy, thinly inventive but tyrannical in epistemic posture. The specter of illiberal renewal outranks his diagnosis: fewer cures, more incantations of civilizational doom.