Thread: McLuhan said that “now” is an illusion, it is a rear view mirror that shows us the road that has already passed. We never have our eyes on the road, which is what is actually happening at this moment. Instead, we watch the mediated past that is our “now”. Accordingly:
Rearview: Europe is set to complete a demographic, ethnic, and religious change. Road: Islam is Western Europe’s premier religion.
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None of this is knowable, except intuitively by examining your immediate environment. Man is now formed through his media and control systems to a staggering extent, but these systems have their own logic & lags. It isn’t real until it’s on TV, and it isn’t on TV yet.
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