1. Since JFK, all USA presidents have used TV to one degree or another, but Trump is truly the first thoroughly television president.
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5. According to McLuhan et. al., print doesn't just contain information but also fosters mental habits: linear, analytical, logical thinking
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6. Pushing point further, McLuhan et al thought post-print electronic culture (not just TV but digital) fostering new mental habits.
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7. TV, by this view, had many features in common with orality: immediacy, primacy of personality, love of sharp outlines.
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8. One example: Trump's use of nicknames ("Crooked Hilary) comes from wrestling but also harkens back to to bardic warriors.
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9. I look at Trump as the triumph of a post-literate age here:https://newrepublic.com/article/144940/trump-tv-post-literate-american-presidency …
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But Trump's post-literacy *has been* revisited countless times. When will we start thinking about how *the rest of us* speak, instead?
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postman doesn't get anywhere near the credit he deserves for predicting this future. daniel boorstin as well.
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best to temper one's reading of McLuhan with a thorough understanding of Walter Winchell, Cindy Adams, and Harvey Levin.
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+1 Neil Postman! Re-read "Amusing Ourselves to Death" post-election. More relevant than ever in a word where a reality TV host is POTUS.
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John Lukacs talks about some aspects of return to the middle ages, pre literate, visual etc. in "at the end of an age".
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