“Our conventional response to all media, namely that it is how they are used that counts, is the numb stance of the technological idiot.” Marshall McLuhan 1964

Liberalism is an outdated ideology from the pre-industrial world, older and less vigorous than modern religious fundamentalism. The US consciously chose outdated ideology over industrial power, it deindustrialized to become a more perfect embodiment of ideology.

"In order to think, you have to forget most of what you are experiencing in order to relate it to earlier things that you knew, otherwise you can’t infer anything from what you are seeing" - Marshall McLuhan

A specter is haunting Bitcoin - the specter of "what is money?"

you think you’ve heard it all, then

Immanuel Kant said that humanity should be treated as an ends, not as a means. Bitcoiners should treat Bitcoin as a means, not as an ends. If Bitcoin becomes something antithetical to human freedom, then it needs to be killed.

LinkedIn Slop Occupied Government

McLuhan was talking about Bitcoin in 1972

"Today the child, swamped by information overload, desperately needs to be taught the means of pattern-recognition for the sake of psychic survival."

“In the course of doing this work, I discovered what’s wrong with the Shannon-Weaver model of communication. What they call ‘noise,’ I call the medium—that is, all the side-effects, all the unintended patterns and changes.” Marshall McLuhan to Jerome Agel March 26, 1976

The main function of the crypto shitcoin market is to create a coin named after every possible word, meme, and image, creating a bijective relationship between communication and crypto options, so that every single Elon tweet can have a maximal market effect, ripe for speculation

A Peer-to-Peer Electronic Treasury Bond System

China is completely destroying the rentier grifters in tech who have been doing the DOD merchant equivalent of charging $500 for a stapler. Chinese tech demystifies the American tech-capital environment of massive overvaluations based on fiat.

“It’s hard to have an objective in a world that’s changing faster than that objective can be fulfilled.” Marshall McLuhan ‘Living in an Acoustic World’ 1974

The Communist Party of China, its history and ideology, and its planning, policy-making, and training apparatus are all essential to explaining the success of modern China and to claim otherwise is just plain stupid.

Do the Zoomers know that Aaron Swartz was effectively murdered by the State because he uploaded a bunch of JSTOR files to the internet so they could be freely accessible? I think Zoomers have almost no concern for internet censorship in this manner-- the lack of 00's pirate

"Just as language offers an extensive and complex apprehension of the structure of beings, so that faculty which produced this state of language is perpetually operative - an intuitive perception of essentials." McLuhan, The Classical Trivium

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