[Scrap] Marshall McLuhan

Jul 7 2011 12:08 am
Games - the extension of man ; 
Games are popular “art", collective, social reactions to the main drive or action of any culture. Games, like institutions, are extension of social man and the body of politics, as technologies are extension of the animal organism. Both games and technologies are counter-irritants or ways of adjusting to the stress of the specialized actions that occur in any social group. As extensions of the popular response to the workday stress, games become faithful models of a culture…  - 1964 by Marshall McLuhan


Aug 14 2011 12:27 pm
"Knowledge is already absolute in every moment…"


Aug 14 2011 12:33 pm
These artificial means liberate an organism from nature though they subject it to something else, transforming tendencies by introducing them into a new milieu.
So money will liberate you from hunger, provided you have money; and marriage will spare you from searching out a partner, though it subjects you to other tasks.