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I call Trump a Marshall McLuhanesque figure. McLuhan called it, right? He says this mass thing called media, or what Pierre Teilhard de Chardin said of the noosphere, is going to so overwhelm evolutionary biology that it will be everything. And Trump understands that. That’s why he watches TV.
David Brooks • My Unsettling Interview With Steve Bannon
John Jarvie
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From a Ted Koppel interview in Frontline: News War:
To the extent that we're now judging journalism by the same standards that we apply to entertainment — in other words, give the public what it wants, not necessarily what it ought to hear, what it ought to see, what it needs, but what it wants — that may prove to be one of the greatest tragedie... See more
John McKenna
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all storytelling is an argument
John Yorke • Into The Woods: How Stories Work and Why We Tell Them
‘proscenium arch’
John Yorke • Into The Woods: How Stories Work and Why We Tell Them
Ageing is a privilege, not a predicament.
Joe Moran • First You Write a Sentence.: The Elements of Reading, Writing … and Life.
Two divergent views of sanctification arose within the movement, each with its own distinct methodological target in the task of counseling. The first view, represented by Adams, targeted observable, habituated behaviors in seeking to bring about change. In contrast, the second view, represented by Powlison and the large majority of biblical counse
... See moreColin R McCulloch • Sanctified by the Spirit: John Owen, Habits of Grace, and Biblical Counseling
‘the morals of the