"Literate man is a sucker for propaganda" Pretty much sums up the Convid debacle.

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I’ve seen many in the past say identity is the quest for violence in many forms such as J krishnamerti and Allan watts. Now to see Mashal who I have newly gotten into I’ve come to the conclusion that at a certain point man if we could tie him to an existing story was once a sort of Lawrence of Arabia figure, going off into adventure seeking the good of the people above all else and he died with that golden chain for millennia. Now it seems we are at the final act of Lawrence of Ariabia, like he predicted we are delving into tribalism once more seaking what the Lawrence’s of the world already knew. Hopefully we progress out of this nonsense soon.

The medium is the massage, as McLuhan would have it, presents a concept that probes deeper into our sensory experience, but remains curiously superficial in practice. We recognize the immediate benefits of a massage-relief, relaxation-but seldom does it reach the root of the discomfort. The true essence of healing lies not in the surface manipulation but in getting to the point of pain, consistently working through it. Most of the time, we visit the massage parlor to address pain we already feel. However, the deeper truth is that you must also probe for pain. You poke, prod, and find points that only reveal themselves upon touch-pain that is dormant, lurking just below perception. It’s an uncomfortable process because you’re forced to confront what you didn’t even know was there. In exposing this hidden discomfort, you're essentially sending a message to your body: this is where the healing needs to happen. The pain is present, but undetected until revealed. The supposed solution we turn to is the massage parlor. You pay for a professional to find and relieve these aches, but it’s difficult to communicate exactly where the problem lies. You may try to describe where to focus, but they might miss it entirely or bring their own ideas into the process. The indirectness of communication is part of the problem-you’re not feeling the pain directly, they are. Only you can truly press the right button and connect to that pain point yourself. Beyond that, the issue with the massage as a medium is that it’s a packaged service, offering temporary relief for a recurring problem. You pay $120 for a session, but to address pain consistently-daily-you’d have to repeat this unsustainable pattern indefinitely. The real solution, however, is not transactional; it is personal. You must engage your body’s attention, day after day, to show it where to direct its healing power. The medium of massage as a professional service distances you from your own body when the economic and physical reality requires that you reconnect and do the work yourself. Consistent, daily tending to your pain-whether chronic or imperceptible-is essential. Massages, while beneficial, should serve as an addition to your own paramedical practice, not a substitute for the deeper, more intimate work of healing. In essence, the medium of the massage becomes a metaphor for our disconnection, both sensory and economic. True engagement requires participation, not passive consumption. Only by continually revealing and addressing hidden pain points can you foster real, lasting healing.

"You over here do believe"......was winning until he said, "those are just words" when he was talking about computer tech! lmao

Amazing work man, so many profound words and concepts. Are you still working on his work? Are you on any new social network?

Frank s such a hack in this interview.

Heard of marshal from Terrance Mckenna a lot and this was recommended to me, I guess it’s time!

Why did it cut off before the end? Where's the test of it? I must know.

Go Tim! :} thank you - awesome.

The interviewer was trying to keep calm while his how worldview was changing

By television he must have meant ' screen ' which all pervading now. We need to Digital detoxification every now and then

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Digital ecosystems and social media (and mass surveillance..) explained at its core in 1977 from an academic and exploratory POV.

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Oh man... the Muggeridge dude asking him questions is absolutely insufferable. His logic is absurd, bordering on obscenely ignorant and fantastical delusion. Did he get famous for his fancy british vocal fry? or?

is the entire lecture somewhere?

what does "touch create an internal" mean? and what is it to "close" they internal?

So much more interesting and productive when people are willing to fight a bit and to laugh at themselves.

Damn, mcLuhan has interesting ideas. At the very end hes saying we have to be completely conscious and aware of what we are doing. It seems the logical conclusion of where we are heading is some sort of reality in our imaginations. Or our imagination having such a penetrating force upon reality that it makes it so. The medium is the message. If we realize how our technologies impact us, we can then factor that in so we are in control of our own destiny as beings

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"There is a sort of totalitarian element to this uh... avalanche of over information, if you will." 🎯 Jesus, these guys had a VERY clear understanding of humans and the human condition... and where it would all lead.

He is doing a stand up routine. This is where Steven Wright got his inspiration.

The medium (Google,Gates,Zukerberg,Jobs,Musk,AI) is the Massage, making humankind replaceable.

The medium (Google,Gates,Zukerberg,Jobs,Musk,AI) is the Massage, making humankind replaceable.

McLuhan's "non-judgmental", amoral approach is ultimately naive. What Mailer is trying to tell us here is that it is Big Brother who is behind these technological advances and his purpose and use of them is not at all altruistic. McLuhan's 20th Century man actually likes Big Brother, yet is clueless about his diabolical intentions. Notice that this is the case in Orwell's "1984". The only one who hates Big Brother is the protagonist Winston Smith. Everyone else in the World of 1984 either loves Big Brother or just accepts him.

27 minutes 43 seconds of Norman Mailer missing the point.

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" But there’s quite a bit about this in a book on Dostoevsky by Bakhtin. He’s a Russian with this new book on the poetics of Dostoevsky. Now, Dostoevsky was entirely a right-hemisphere man, and he, too, puts on these mimes, these carnival-like, Mardi Gras, crazy performances that were a traditional Byzantine form." I wonder how much he knew about Bakhtin consider Problems of Dostoevsky's Poetics wasn't published in English for another 5 or so years.

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Is there a full version of this discussion? He was, seemingly, only just getting into the part on polite society.

Bro, thank you for this, McLuhan is one of the greatest minds of the 20th century and possibly of all time. Ha, time ❤, greetings from 🇷🇸

He brought intellectualism to snake oil salesmanship. He made intellectualism itself a platitudewith meaning almost irrelevant.

Part 1 has been removed. Love y'all Namaste or whatever the F

I got here from James Corbett and while I trust him and love his stuff - now this is probably fault - I found this quite hard to understand. Felt like random words strung together

WOW!😮 Capote was thought slow by his school teachers so they tested his IQ expecting or perhaps wanting the worst for him. Well they were disappointed when the news came that he was in fact a genius😂 This interview proves it. He went tête á tête with the original communications theorist and won the debate against one of the greatest minds of the 20th century IN HIS OWN FIELD!😊

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