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To: Jamestown1630

There have been addictive personalities throughout all generations.


37 posted on 04/09/2025 3:01:28 PM PDT by Responsibility2nd (Nobody elected Elon Musk? Well nobody elected the Deep State either.)
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To: Responsibility2nd

Yes but new technologies bring out new psychological patterns, including new addictions.

The cell phone is just our newest example of Marshall McLuhan’s ‘medium’ being the ‘message’; which, according to Wiki, he defines as ‘the change of scale or pace or pattern that a new invention or innovation introduces into human affairs.’

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_medium_is_the_message


43 posted on 04/09/2025 3:09:23 PM PDT by Jamestown1630 ("A Republic, if you can keep it.")
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