What did he mean by this?
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>>8023636
Kek
But really, what did he mean by this? I never understood this quote
recording medium for message = tangible book linear script; the unseen radio wave transmission; the cuts and succession of TV images on screen; and interactive computer windows with intangible data
>>8023631
>WAR IS PEACE
>FREEDOM IS SLAVERY
>IGNORANCE IS STRENGTH
![The Sopranos S02E11 House Arrest.mkv_snapshot_07.01_[2016.05.11_10.30.00].jpg](https://i.imgur.com/Vn1MMXu.jpg "The Sopranos S02E11 House Arrest.mkv snapshot 07.01 [2016.05.11 10.30.00]")
That's right.
>>8023712
>FEAR IS FREEDOM
>SUBJUGATION IS LIBERATION
>CONTRADICTION IS TRUTH
The ideas we put to paper are filtered by the medium. Medium is like a translation in that you aren't really reading the original work but the translator's interpretation, which in this case is the medium itself.
>>8023631
>>8023707
the medium is just as important as the message because without the medium we wouldn't have the message. Yet the medium ultimately filters the message because its impossible to have an entirely objective account of reality, so the message we receive isn't the reality itself but the media's version of the message - which in itself becomes its own reality. So what you're seeing is the medium, not the message. The medium is the message.
And the medium is also the massage but don't get me started that bullshit unfunny pun.
>>8023631
Let me just clarify >>8023903
McLuhan claims that the change of medium -- that is, the actual technology or format by which we live our lives and communicate with one another -- is MORE important than the content of what is inside of the medium. McLuhan claims that the invention of the alphabet created linear thought, while all books written thereafter were simply working within the flow of linear thought. Therefore, the medium changed our actual brain cognition, whereas the content of all written works builds off of the changes presented by the medium.
