The Fifth Wave: Andrey Mir Takes on World History

the “ecological” effects of media—its “terraforming power” to change the human environment and so human behavior and society.

In preliterate societies, truth is “relationship-oriented” and relative to the speaker—a function of charismatic persuasion. With the arrival of literacy, truth breaks free from space and time and attaches itself to a permanent and deeply inward medium: It becomes canonical, abstract and absolute. Today, the children of the web, as Mir correctly ob... See more