[MD] Media As Epistemology and what it means for Truth

[John Carl]

I thought about the internet Dave, as I was reading Postman's diatribe and
he gives it no mention at all.  His book was written in 1985, so the
internet was nothing but a gleam in daddy-nerd's eye.

But the internet doesn't obviate the model he lays out, in fact it confirms
and offers a bit of hope, in my view, of ameliorating the top-down
programming effects of mass tv consumption.

But honestly, I had more hope earlier in the development of the 'net, than I
do today.  As it's developed, we've got millions twittering the doin's of
hollywood and about six people doing metaphysics.

Ok, an exaggeration.  But hopefully you get my point.



On Tue, Feb 9, 2010 at 1:51 PM, David Thomas
<combinedefforts at earthlink.net>wrote:

> On 2/9/10 3:14 PM, "John Carl" <ridgecoyote at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > television is nothing less than a philosophy of rhetoric.
>
> And the internet is not?
>
> Oh, I get it;  life is the philosophy of rhetoric.
> Quality rhetoric of course :-o
>
> Dave
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