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Explore Marshall McLuhan’s groundbreaking theories on communication, technology, and why "the medium is the message" in the digital age.
…by the way, educated the Gauls by war. This is the approved Western method of educating backward areas, is warfare. And Alexander the Great did it that way. Napoleon, I was reading a book on the Russian Revolution the other day in which the author…
…of social communication, organizing space, so that the written sounds on paper were used for the control of armies. And both Alexander the Great and the Julius Caesar and those great generals were able to use the roads and the circular systems of the…
…whole mechanical industrial environment around them as an educational machine. This is what Julius Caesar did with the Huns. Alexander the Great did. War as an educational institution is the most powerful because it deals with the whole environment in action…
…whole mechanical industrial environment around them as an educational machine. This is what Julius Caesar did with the Huns. Alexander the Great did. War as an educational institution is the most powerful because it deals with the whole environment in action…
…generally traditional Pakistani art? Perhaps the historical factor here should help. When Rome and Greece entered the Orient, when Alexander the Great plunged into the Oriental world, he brought completely new forms of perception to the East. And Rome did…
…I mean human wars have done most of the educating in human history. I wouldn't know where to begin. Certainly Alexander the Great was a great educator of the Orient. He pushed western ways into the Far East, changed their architecture, everything. Julius…
…Consists in sending our culture abroad to encounter alien cultures. That's the way Julius Caesar educated the Huns. Alexander the Great educated considerable parts of the world this way, by simply allowing these backward territories to see civilized legions,…
…the Huns very adequately. He really educated them. They quickly came back and destroyed him. But, or destroyed Rome. But Alexander the Great and Julius Caesar were two of the greatest educators in the history of mankind. Warfare as a teaching machine,…
…They're getting our whole culture by interface. Now this happened, Napoleon educated the Russians, in Western ways, far more than Peter the Great. And he taught him how to drive on the right side of the road all through Europe anyway. Does anybody happen…
…whole mechanical industrial environment around them as an educational machine. This is what Julius Caesar did with the Huns. Alexander the Great did. War as an educational institution is the most powerful because it deals with the whole environment in action…