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    1. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 24 Sep 2017

      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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    2. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 24 Sep 2017

      2. It's not just Trump was a TV star. His entire mental horizon is shaped by TV. It's the prism through which he sees the world.

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    3. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 24 Sep 2017

      3. The flip side of being a TV president is that Trump is not at all a reader. As far as I can tell, the first post-literate USA president.

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    4. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 24 Sep 2017

      4. Trump invites us to revisit the ideas of Marshall McLuhan, Walter Ong, Neil Postman & others about literacy as a state of mind.

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    5. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 24 Sep 2017

      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. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 24 Sep 2017

      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. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 24 Sep 2017

      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. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 24 Sep 2017

      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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      Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 24 Sep 2017

      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 …

      7:36 AM - 24 Sep 2017
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        2. Eric‏ @EricWRowell 24 Sep 2017
          Replying to @HeerJeet

          Is it possible you can summarize your article in a short youtube video so we can watch it instead?

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        3. DawnMarie‏ @dawnmarie7679 24 Sep 2017
          Replying to @EricWRowell @HeerJeet

          🤣

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        1. John Mark N Reynolds‏ @JMNR 24 Sep 2017
          Replying to @HeerJeet

          This is quite brilliant. I made a less coherent version of this argument to our college students last week.

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        1. Martin Fritter‏ @MartinFritter 24 Sep 2017
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          Illiterate, more like it.

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        1. Ernest Miller‏ @RLMProvisions 24 Sep 2017
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          "Drain the libraries!"

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        1. bjornapooryoung‏ @Bjornapoor 24 Sep 2017
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          Illiterate

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        2. 忍者の神 Marxist-Yeagerist ⌬‏ @delmoi 24 Sep 2017
          Replying to @HeerJeet

          Ironic you're doing this as a tweet thread. What's really interesting is that for a lot of younger people these days TV is a dead medium.

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        3. 忍者の神 Marxist-Yeagerist ⌬‏ @delmoi 24 Sep 2017
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          (BTW I do *not* consider Netflix binge-watchers or GoT /Breaking Bad to be anything like "television" of the 20th century)

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        1. compost‏ @0alexander 24 Sep 2017
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          equating literacy with intelligence is a dumb thing to do

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        1. pdossantos‏ @p_dos_santos 24 Sep 2017
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          Post-literate America is about to get the city of Seoul S Korea immolated.

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