Mass Mind Brain Damage

Not just personal brain damage, not just one individual brain damage.

Brain damage of entire groups, mass mind brain damage. Mass man brain damage.

Reference:

  1. “The Galaxy Reconfigured or the Plight of Mass Man in an Individualist Society” - Marshall McLuhan

  2. “Global Brain: The Evolution of Mass Mind from the Big Bang to the 21st Century” - Howard Bloom

  • obvs@lemmy.worldEnglish
    10·
    14 days ago

    This reminds me of when I was in college. Someone wrote an editorial giving information about the last few Presidents, and because of not understanding the election schedule correctly, the editor in chief of the school newspaper published an argument in favor of Republican policies, and published it.

    I wrote a response and corrected her, letting her know that Presidents actually take office in the subsequent year after the election.

    She wrote me a personal response by email to apologize, published my response in the paper, and published a retraction of her editorial.

    • Supervisor194@lemmy.world
      2·
      14 days ago

      She wrote me a personal response by email to apologize, published my response in the paper, and published a retraction of her editorial.

      I’m sure she’d do the same today. The Internet has made us all so much better at engaging in constructive dialogue.