/lit/ - Literature

Is it normal to find McLuhan's prose dense and hard to process? His conclusions generally make sense, but he doesn't justify many of them and often gives a ton of examples at once expecting you to fill in the blanks. He makes great points but I wish he would write more clearly.

That aside, I spent some days offline recently, and resolved to limit myself to 3 hours a day of net use. The result so far is I spent more time reading, and more time dwelling on the things in life that really matter to me. The internet of 2020 feels like a sedative for all the bright young 20-somethings to go in and intellectually waste away. Like >>17038973 said, having a purpose is what matters. It doesn't have to be a "meaning of life"ーit's just what you ought to focus on now according to your circumstances. Don't let technology's values override your own as a human being.

>>16895875
Finished AOTD, halfway through Ellul now. I want to continue in the same area but I haven't decided with what yet. Will probably read Ellul's Propaganda too. Then maybe something by Mumford, and Hobsbawm's Industry and Empire.