Freedom, Creation, and Wildfire…
Resolved: Freedom is prerequisite to the acts of creation and resurrection…
As the first mass medium, print promoted linear thought, reason, individual liberty, freedom, and democracy.
By contrast, electronic mass media promote distraction, limbic reaction, mass conformity (anti-freedom), and state-centric socioeconomic models like fascism, socialism, and communism.
That’s not to say that some people can’t find some measure of individual liberty and reason in digital media. Merely that the inherent biases of all electronic media point us in certain anti-freedom directions and behaviors by default. In other words: the medium is the message — a lesson those who care to know have known for generations.
Of course, those in the best position to understand that the medium is the message and behave accordingly are pretty much like everyone else…
“It is difficult to get a man to understand something when his salary depends upon his not understanding it.” — Upton Sinclair
Whether they understand intuitively (like many artists and entrepreneurs) or via deliberate research and study (like many academicians), those in a position to understand know that the mass media-driven tendency of the digital age is to accelerate the consolidation of state power and the wholesale adoption of mass media-driven conformity at the expense of individual liberty and freedom. Hence the 21st-century rise an
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