@Dan_Bowdoin Our call, in practice, is to confront the simultaneity of the enormous force of the Zeitgeist and its primary, expressive medium. I wonder what Ellul, so presciently alert to the transcendent significance of wedded spiritual and media environments, would have made of the Web Era.
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Copy of tweet thread here: Jesus provided us with no old or new 'concept' of the kingdom of God at all. He brought God's kingdom himself. “Though he never coined the phrase, 'the medium is the messiah' may have been McLuhan’s ultimate perceptual insight. The 'medium is the message' may have been merely its conceptual phrasing.” - Read Mercer Schuchardt, The Reformation as Media Event, Second Nature. @theccsn Painting-human-synthesis graphic with calligraphy reading, The Interface Is You 5/ McLuhan: "In Jesus, there is no distance or separation between the medium and the message: it is the one case where we can say that the medium and the message are fully one and the same...it is only at the level of a lived Christianity that the medium really is the message."
@EuroConOfficial @EsmeLKPartridge 2/ As for Bulgakov’s “victory of good on the path of world-historical tragedy leading to the final separation of light and darkness"? It embraces a harvest of collective consciousness, disclosure and consequence in cyberspace as much as meatspace. We are a unicity, after all.
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Copy of tweet: If you knew a society of powerful wizards was trying to summon an alien god to harness its power, but they thought there was a 5% chance it would kill everyone in the world, what would you do? Assume you're only a medium level hero 7:14 AM · Sep 22, 2023