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Live with Matt Vaughn (opens the original)
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Thus Spoke the Nature Boy (opens the original)
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Start with the music, because the music is the argument.For forty years Ric Flair walked to the ring to the opening of Also sprach Zarathustra, the tone poem Richard Strauss wrote in 1896 as a musical portrait of Nietzsche’s book. Most people know it from 2001: A Space Odyssey, where Kubrick used it twice: once when the ape picks up the bone and becomes a man, and once when the man becomes the Star Child. It is the sound of the species crossing a line. Strauss meant it that way. Kubrick meant it
The Media Cohorts (opens the original)
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McLuhan’s deepest claim about generations is that they aren’t age cohorts at all. They’re media cohorts. The technology that arrives while your nervous system is still wet cement doesn’t become a tool you use. It becomes the unconscious you get. Your elders adopt the new medium; you are made of it. That’s why generational rebellion always has the same hidden structure: each generation, formed by an environment its parents can’t perceive, attacks the sensibility of people formed by the previous o
Backlog of Revelation (opens the original)
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Something happened this week. I don’t know how else to say it, so I’ll just say it the way I said it in my notes when it hit: anyone feel suddenly different? Like a chord was struck. Extremely positive vibes coming in hard. I’ve learned, after thirty years of paying attention to the field around events as much as the events themselves, not to dismiss those moments. Something in the collective weather shifted this week, and when I lay out what actually happened over the same seven days, I don’t t
Profile Was the Body-6 (opens the original)
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The sixth episode of the BOB Show opens with Bob Dobbs not knowing what show he is on. This is not a bit. You’re not Alex, he says. Young Holden. Youngblood Holden, I correct him, and he explains, cheerfully, that he is on the radio and the phone day in and day out, so much talk pouring through him, that he genuinely no longer always knows who he is talking to, and that halfway through he may forget my name again, and I should not take it personally. The man Donald Theall called the new McLuhan
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