{"id":20,"date":"2007-01-21T22:19:42","date_gmt":"2007-01-22T06:19:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.useriscontent.com\/blog\/?p=20"},"modified":"2007-01-21T22:19:42","modified_gmt":"2007-01-22T06:19:42","slug":"mcluhan-meeting-notes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.useriscontent.com\/blog\/2007\/01\/21\/mcluhan-meeting-notes\/","title":{"rendered":"McLuhan Meeting Notes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Just a brief collection of notes from today's McLuhan meeting.<br \/>\nWe read pgs. 169-172 of Marshall's (Amazon)  <a target=\"_blank\" title=\"Amazon - Take Today Marshall McLuhan\" href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/0151878307?ie=UTF8&#038;tag=wwwjohnhumphr-20&#038;linkCode=as2&#038;camp=1789&#038;creative=9325&#038;creativeASIN=0151878307\">Take today; the executive as dropout<\/a><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" border=\"0\" style=\"border: medium none  ! important; margin: 0px ! important\" src=\"http:\/\/www.assoc-amazon.com\/e\/ir?t=wwwjohnhumphr-20&#038;l=as2&#038;o=1&#038;a=0151878307\" \/>.<br \/>\nAgain we are amazed at the insights a book published 35 years ago provides to us today.<br \/>\n<a title=\"Wikipedia Kerry Thornley\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Kerry_Thornley\">Kerry Thornley<\/a> (Wikipedia) was the co-founder (with Greg Hill) of Discordianism.<br \/>\nMy curiosity was piqued after listening to an R.U. Sirius (mp3) <a target=\"_blank\" title=\"RU Sirius with Adam Gorightly\" href=\"http:\/\/rusiriusradio.com\/shows\/rusirius-081.mp3\">interview<\/a> with Adam Gorightly on the subject of Rightly's new book (Amazon) <a target=\"_blank\" title=\"Amazon The Prankster and the Conspiracy\" href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/193104466X?ie=UTF8&#038;tag=wwwjohnhumphr-20&#038;linkCode=as2&#038;camp=1789&#038;creative=9325&#038;creativeASIN=193104466X\">The Prankster and the Conspiracy: The Story of Kerry Thornley and How He Met Oswald and Inspired the Counterculture<\/a><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" border=\"0\" style=\"border: medium none  ! important; margin: 0px ! important\" src=\"http:\/\/www.assoc-amazon.com\/e\/ir?t=wwwjohnhumphr-20&#038;l=as2&#038;o=1&#038;a=193104466X\" \/>.<\/p>\n<p>What happened to \u00a0 <a target=\"_blank\" title=\"Wikipedia Ward Churchill\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Ward_Churchill\">Ward Churchill<\/a> (Wikipedia) in the aftermath of his controversial 911 article? (Basically he's appealing the Standing Committee's finding that his research was flawed while awaiting sanctions yet to be determined.)<\/p>\n<p>Michael made a point I felt worth repeating, although I'm only paraphrasing&#8230;<br \/>\n\"The Republicans own the infrastructure i.e. the hard assets &#8211; they don't care if they bankrupt the country, they'll just re-monetize in the new currency- it's the rest of us who will be screwed.\"<\/p>\n<p><a target=\"_blank\" title=\"Pinchbeck on The Colbert Report\" href=\"http:\/\/www.comedycentral.com\/motherload\/player.jhtml?ml_video=79554&#038;ml_collection=&#038;ml_gateway=&#038;ml_gateway_id=&#038;ml_comedian=&#038;ml_runtime=&#038;ml_context=show&#038;ml_origin_url=%2Fshows%2Fthe_colbert_report%2Fvideos%2Fcelebrity_interviews%2Findex.jhtml%3FplayVideo%3D79554&#038;ml_playlist=&#038;lnk=&#038;is_large=true\">Pinchbeck on The Colbert Report<\/a>. (Comedy Central- fast internet and computer required.)<\/p>\n<p>Until next time.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Just a brief collection of notes from today's McLuhan meeting. We read pgs. 169-172 of Marshall's (Amazon) Take today; the executive as dropout. Again we are amazed at the insights a book published 35 years ago provides to us today. Kerry Thornley (Wikipedia) was the co-founder (with Greg Hill) of Discordianism. My curiosity was piqued &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.useriscontent.com\/blog\/2007\/01\/21\/mcluhan-meeting-notes\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> \"McLuhan Meeting Notes\"<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[4],"class_list":["post-20","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-john","tag-mcluhan"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.useriscontent.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.useriscontent.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.useriscontent.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.useriscontent.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.useriscontent.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.useriscontent.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.useriscontent.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.useriscontent.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.useriscontent.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}