“There is absolutely no inevitability as long as there is a willingness to contemplate what is happening.”…

“There is absolutely no inevitability as long as there is a willingness to contemplate what is happening.” (McLuhan) Our sense of inevitable failure to address our problems is due to them being badly understood. 1/4 https://t.co/uF2SqtrBSu

As Spinoza said, only knowledge really sets us free. We can construct straw man baddies, like capitalism or communism, or MSM, to explain why things are going badly. Things go badly when we don't understand them. It's the ONLY reason. 2/4

McLuhan saw that the greatest transformations to our cultures come with the change to communications media. Print in the 15 the century changed everything. Social media is a massive revolution. We're using it with the understandings taken from print and broadcast media. 3/4

McLuhan saw that it's not the content of media that's important. It's the way the media reshape how humans perceive and connect. Social media is a fundamentally new way of social life. It needs to be understood. Right now it's literally breaking centuries of civilisation. /end