Did you click on the link she provides at the end of this Substack intro (where it says: "Click here to read the whole thing")? I am not a First Things subscriber—free or paid—but that link opened the whole essay for me.
You’re right … I just found how to get in to it without paying ! So now am free subscriber which looks quite interesting in itself . Thanks for the encouragement… it’s not so easy to manage for untechy people like me !
It's worth going back to Marshall McLuhan's seminal and still-prophetic 1964 book, "Understanding Media: The Extensions of Man." More than 60 years ago, at the dawn of he computer age, he correctly foresaw the challenge to print, and Enlightenment values, in today's radically connected world and he was not a techno optimist. And his thinking was also grounded in traditional Catholic philosophy.
I was able to read it for free on First Things (I clicked the link from your Twitter/X post).
It was very thought provoking, thank you. I had recently been reading David Chapman's writing on nobility and I could help but see the connections between that and what we've written. I urge you to check him out if you haven't already.
Would love to read it but have hit a wall in terms of subscribing to more and more and more things. Just can't keep doing that. I also hope you post it here, or can somehow get access for your paid subscribers.
Perhaps the basic truth about digital media is that it compounds and accelerates everything, leading to a whole lot of 'sound and fury signifying nothing'. We need to be picky about who and what we engage with.
For one thing, this is such an interesting, cogent, original response to the shallow, painfully inorganic “No Kings” sloganeering. Much to consider, as always. Well done. I look forward to exploring my new First Things subscription if this is the sort of essay they are publishing. Maybe I’ll even try the print option … ;)
Thank you for making this essay, which had been behind the First Things paywall, available for your Substack subscribers. I’m sure First Things is a fine site, but my number of subscriptions have been getting a bit out of control. Looking forward to reading.
Will you post here in full at some point? Thanks
"to bee" or not to bee, that is the question ;)
It seems it’s not possible to read this essay which looks so interesting without subscribing to First Things?
Correct, it is a paid subscription.
Really annoying but cannot read it as others say without full subscription to First Things …
Seems that after a slight delay I’m now a free subscriber to First Things after all - so maybe worth other people waiting for an email from them!?
Yes I have subscribed free and got the welcome email but still it blocks me from reading Mary’s essay when I finally found it ….. how about you?
Did you click on the link she provides at the end of this Substack intro (where it says: "Click here to read the whole thing")? I am not a First Things subscriber—free or paid—but that link opened the whole essay for me.
You’re right … I just found how to get in to it without paying ! So now am free subscriber which looks quite interesting in itself . Thanks for the encouragement… it’s not so easy to manage for untechy people like me !
And no doubt that’s related to the 'moral of the story'.
You may wish to note in this post that the article cannot be read without subscribing to First Things ($)
It's worth going back to Marshall McLuhan's seminal and still-prophetic 1964 book, "Understanding Media: The Extensions of Man." More than 60 years ago, at the dawn of he computer age, he correctly foresaw the challenge to print, and Enlightenment values, in today's radically connected world and he was not a techno optimist. And his thinking was also grounded in traditional Catholic philosophy.
Requires an account sign-up. Hoping it will be a paywalled post here at some point.
I was able to read it for free on First Things (I clicked the link from your Twitter/X post).
It was very thought provoking, thank you. I had recently been reading David Chapman's writing on nobility and I could help but see the connections between that and what we've written. I urge you to check him out if you haven't already.
Would love to read it but have hit a wall in terms of subscribing to more and more and more things. Just can't keep doing that. I also hope you post it here, or can somehow get access for your paid subscribers.
What about TV and Radio? Would love to know how these factor into the analysis.
It’s in there if you have a chance to read the full essay.
Shhh, now you went and made her analysis fall apart.
Lol maybe try reading the analysis before you critique it, right?
Your link is paywalled: Q.E.D. your point: "The end of print culture is already upon us. "
This is going to be a banger i can tell :))))
Perhaps the basic truth about digital media is that it compounds and accelerates everything, leading to a whole lot of 'sound and fury signifying nothing'. We need to be picky about who and what we engage with.
For one thing, this is such an interesting, cogent, original response to the shallow, painfully inorganic “No Kings” sloganeering. Much to consider, as always. Well done. I look forward to exploring my new First Things subscription if this is the sort of essay they are publishing. Maybe I’ll even try the print option … ;)
Thank you for making this essay, which had been behind the First Things paywall, available for your Substack subscribers. I’m sure First Things is a fine site, but my number of subscriptions have been getting a bit out of control. Looking forward to reading.
Really disappointing this really interesting essay is behind a Paywall.
Uh oh, sounds persuasive—I’ll go the First Things and read it