Michael Huemer - The Irrationality of Politics

[Bond]

Originally Posted by Professor S

McLuhan's predictions are dire. He believes that the media we consume changes us in ways we don't realize until after the effects irrevocable. In the end he believes that the loss of individual identity and growth of tribalism will inevitably end is violence as we lash out at one another and utterly lose the ability to view the world from a perspective outside of the tribe.

Is this expanded upon in text anywhere, or is it in those videos? That's quite the mind bender (in a good way).

Don't you feel like we've grown more toward individualism than tribalism, though? I suppose they're quite relative terms.

[Professor S]

Originally Posted by Bond

Is this expanded upon in text anywhere, or is it in those videos? That's quite the mind bender (in a good way).

Don't you feel like we've grown more toward individualism than tribalism, though? I suppose they're quite relative terms.

It was in a video somewhere. It was later in his life, and I did add some translation... he can be... quixotic.

THIS is AWESOMELY brain scrambling. You must view in 240p, purposefully I'm sure.




On tribalism and violence:


As for individualism? I think we have seen the growth in the tribe of individualists.