Michael Huemer - The Irrationality of Politics

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Originally Posted by Professor S

McLuhan's predictions are dire. He believes that the media we consume changes us in ways we don't realize until after the effects irrevocable. In the end he believes that the loss of individual identity and growth of tribalism will inevitably end is violence as we lash out at one another and utterly lose the ability to view the world from a perspective outside of the tribe.

Is this expanded upon in text anywhere, or is it in those videos? That's quite the mind bender (in a good way).

Don't you feel like we've grown more toward individualism than tribalism, though? I suppose they're quite relative terms.