[{"id":2924,"link":"https:\/\/towardknowing.com\/telos\/","name":"telos","thumbnail":{"url":false,"alt":false},"title":"Telos","postMeta":[],"author":{"name":"Yoodei Mon","link":"https:\/\/towardknowing.com\/author\/yoodei\/"},"date":"Nov 17, 2025","dateGMT":"2025-11-18 03:12:06","modifiedDate":"2025-11-17 20:12:06","modifiedDateGMT":"2025-11-18 03:12:06","commentCount":"0","commentStatus":"open","categories":{"coma":"<a href=\"https:\/\/towardknowing.com\/category\/wisdom\/\" rel=\"category tag\">Wisdom<\/a>","space":"<a href=\"https:\/\/towardknowing.com\/category\/wisdom\/\" rel=\"category tag\">Wisdom<\/a>"},"taxonomies":{"post_tag":"<a href='https:\/\/towardknowing.com\/tag\/feser\/' rel='post_tag'>feser<\/a><a href='https:\/\/towardknowing.com\/tag\/mcluhan\/' rel='post_tag'>mcluhan<\/a><a href='https:\/\/towardknowing.com\/tag\/media\/' rel='post_tag'>media<\/a><a href='https:\/\/towardknowing.com\/tag\/quotes\/' rel='post_tag'>quotes<\/a>"},"readTime":{"min":0,"sec":14},"status":"publish","content":"Societies have always been shaped more by the nature of the media by which they communicate than by the content of the communication. --- Certain brain processes might be naturally and unconsciously \"directed toward\" certain kinds of speech and behavior. 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Feser"},{"id":2921,"link":"https:\/\/towardknowing.com\/distraction\/","name":"distraction","thumbnail":{"url":false,"alt":false},"title":"Distraction","postMeta":[],"author":{"name":"Yoodei Mon","link":"https:\/\/towardknowing.com\/author\/yoodei\/"},"date":"Nov 17, 2025","dateGMT":"2025-11-18 03:10:14","modifiedDate":"2025-11-17 20:10:14","modifiedDateGMT":"2025-11-18 03:10:14","commentCount":"0","commentStatus":"open","categories":{"coma":"<a href=\"https:\/\/towardknowing.com\/category\/wisdom\/\" rel=\"category tag\">Wisdom<\/a>","space":"<a href=\"https:\/\/towardknowing.com\/category\/wisdom\/\" rel=\"category tag\">Wisdom<\/a>"},"taxonomies":{"post_tag":"<a href='https:\/\/towardknowing.com\/tag\/media\/' rel='post_tag'>media<\/a><a href='https:\/\/towardknowing.com\/tag\/postman\/' rel='post_tag'>postman<\/a><a href='https:\/\/towardknowing.com\/tag\/quotes\/' rel='post_tag'>quotes<\/a>"},"readTime":{"min":0,"sec":12},"status":"publish","content":"Magic significantly directs our attention to the wrong place. It evokes a sense of wonder rather than understanding. In Technopoly, we are surrounded by the wondrous effects of machines and are encouraged to ignore the ideas embedded in them. 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G.K. Chesterton. --- T. Veblen | apparatus changed to medium and materials changed to people."},{"id":2912,"link":"https:\/\/towardknowing.com\/final-cause\/","name":"final-cause","thumbnail":{"url":false,"alt":false},"title":"Final Cause","postMeta":[],"author":{"name":"Yoodei Mon","link":"https:\/\/towardknowing.com\/author\/yoodei\/"},"date":"Nov 17, 2025","dateGMT":"2025-11-18 03:02:47","modifiedDate":"2025-11-17 20:07:19","modifiedDateGMT":"2025-11-18 03:07:19","commentCount":"0","commentStatus":"open","categories":{"coma":"<a href=\"https:\/\/towardknowing.com\/category\/wisdom\/\" rel=\"category tag\">Wisdom<\/a>","space":"<a href=\"https:\/\/towardknowing.com\/category\/wisdom\/\" rel=\"category tag\">Wisdom<\/a>"},"taxonomies":{"post_tag":"<a href='https:\/\/towardknowing.com\/tag\/homer\/' rel='post_tag'>homer<\/a><a href='https:\/\/towardknowing.com\/tag\/media\/' rel='post_tag'>media<\/a><a href='https:\/\/towardknowing.com\/tag\/quotes\/' rel='post_tag'>quotes<\/a>"},"readTime":{"min":0,"sec":2},"status":"publish","content":"The knife, itself, incites to violence. Homer"},{"id":2909,"link":"https:\/\/towardknowing.com\/literature\/","name":"literature","thumbnail":{"url":false,"alt":false},"title":"Literature","postMeta":[],"author":{"name":"Yoodei Mon","link":"https:\/\/towardknowing.com\/author\/yoodei\/"},"date":"Nov 17, 2025","dateGMT":"2025-11-18 03:01:47","modifiedDate":"2025-11-17 20:07:26","modifiedDateGMT":"2025-11-18 03:07:26","commentCount":"0","commentStatus":"open","categories":{"coma":"<a href=\"https:\/\/towardknowing.com\/category\/wisdom\/\" rel=\"category tag\">Wisdom<\/a>","space":"<a href=\"https:\/\/towardknowing.com\/category\/wisdom\/\" rel=\"category tag\">Wisdom<\/a>"},"taxonomies":{"post_tag":"<a href='https:\/\/towardknowing.com\/tag\/fulton\/' rel='post_tag'>fulton<\/a><a href='https:\/\/towardknowing.com\/tag\/media\/' rel='post_tag'>media<\/a><a href='https:\/\/towardknowing.com\/tag\/quotes\/' rel='post_tag'>quotes<\/a>"},"readTime":{"min":0,"sec":15},"status":"publish","content":"The telos of the written word is not primarily in it's content. That's absurd. It's end is in it's underlying message: that the world can be understood, logical, coherent.The value of the printed word is not solely in it's content. It has a message in it's own right. KJF"},{"id":2907,"link":"https:\/\/towardknowing.com\/social-media\/","name":"social-media","thumbnail":{"url":false,"alt":false},"title":"Social Media","postMeta":[],"author":{"name":"Yoodei Mon","link":"https:\/\/towardknowing.com\/author\/yoodei\/"},"date":"Nov 17, 2025","dateGMT":"2025-11-18 02:59:40","modifiedDate":"2025-11-17 20:07:34","modifiedDateGMT":"2025-11-18 03:07:34","commentCount":"0","commentStatus":"open","categories":{"coma":"<a href=\"https:\/\/towardknowing.com\/category\/wisdom\/\" rel=\"category tag\">Wisdom<\/a>","space":"<a href=\"https:\/\/towardknowing.com\/category\/wisdom\/\" rel=\"category tag\">Wisdom<\/a>"},"taxonomies":{"post_tag":"<a href='https:\/\/towardknowing.com\/tag\/mcluhan\/' rel='post_tag'>mcluhan<\/a><a href='https:\/\/towardknowing.com\/tag\/media\/' rel='post_tag'>media<\/a><a href='https:\/\/towardknowing.com\/tag\/quotes\/' rel='post_tag'>quotes<\/a>"},"readTime":{"min":0,"sec":6},"status":"publish","content":"The real meaning of social networks isn\u2019t what they\u2019re used for - it\u2019s what they do to us. Eric McLuhan"},{"id":2905,"link":"https:\/\/towardknowing.com\/philosophy\/","name":"philosophy","thumbnail":{"url":false,"alt":false},"title":"Philosophy","postMeta":[],"author":{"name":"Yoodei Mon","link":"https:\/\/towardknowing.com\/author\/yoodei\/"},"date":"Nov 17, 2025","dateGMT":"2025-11-18 02:57:37","modifiedDate":"2025-11-17 19:57:37","modifiedDateGMT":"2025-11-18 02:57:37","commentCount":"0","commentStatus":"open","categories":{"coma":"<a href=\"https:\/\/towardknowing.com\/category\/wisdom\/\" rel=\"category tag\">Wisdom<\/a>","space":"<a href=\"https:\/\/towardknowing.com\/category\/wisdom\/\" rel=\"category tag\">Wisdom<\/a>"},"taxonomies":{"post_tag":"<a href='https:\/\/towardknowing.com\/tag\/feser\/' rel='post_tag'>feser<\/a><a href='https:\/\/towardknowing.com\/tag\/philosophy\/' rel='post_tag'>philosophy<\/a><a href='https:\/\/towardknowing.com\/tag\/quotes\/' rel='post_tag'>quotes<\/a>"},"readTime":{"min":0,"sec":3},"status":"publish","content":"Philosophy has no lane. It owns the whole freeway.Ed Feser"},{"id":2902,"link":"https:\/\/towardknowing.com\/media\/","name":"media","thumbnail":{"url":false,"alt":false},"title":"Media","postMeta":[],"author":{"name":"Yoodei Mon","link":"https:\/\/towardknowing.com\/author\/yoodei\/"},"date":"Nov 17, 2025","dateGMT":"2025-11-18 02:54:55","modifiedDate":"2025-11-17 19:54:55","modifiedDateGMT":"2025-11-18 02:54:55","commentCount":"0","commentStatus":"open","categories":{"coma":"<a href=\"https:\/\/towardknowing.com\/category\/wisdom\/\" rel=\"category tag\">Wisdom<\/a>","space":"<a href=\"https:\/\/towardknowing.com\/category\/wisdom\/\" rel=\"category tag\">Wisdom<\/a>"},"taxonomies":{"post_tag":"<a href='https:\/\/towardknowing.com\/tag\/mcluhan\/' rel='post_tag'>mcluhan<\/a><a href='https:\/\/towardknowing.com\/tag\/media\/' rel='post_tag'>media<\/a><a href='https:\/\/towardknowing.com\/tag\/quotes\/' rel='post_tag'>quotes<\/a>"},"readTime":{"min":0,"sec":10},"status":"publish","content":"Understanding is half the battle. The central purpose of all my work is to convey this message, that by understanding media as they extend man, we gain a measure of control over them.Marshall McLuhan"},{"id":2891,"link":"https:\/\/towardknowing.com\/rhetoric\/","name":"rhetoric","thumbnail":{"url":false,"alt":false},"title":"Rhetoric","postMeta":[],"author":{"name":"Yoodei Mon","link":"https:\/\/towardknowing.com\/author\/yoodei\/"},"date":"Nov 17, 2025","dateGMT":"2025-11-18 02:50:09","modifiedDate":"2025-11-17 19:52:33","modifiedDateGMT":"2025-11-18 02:52:33","commentCount":"0","commentStatus":"open","categories":{"coma":"<a href=\"https:\/\/towardknowing.com\/category\/wisdom\/\" rel=\"category tag\">Wisdom<\/a>","space":"<a href=\"https:\/\/towardknowing.com\/category\/wisdom\/\" rel=\"category tag\">Wisdom<\/a>"},"taxonomies":{"post_tag":"<a href='https:\/\/towardknowing.com\/tag\/brookfield\/' rel='post_tag'>brookfield<\/a><a href='https:\/\/towardknowing.com\/tag\/quotes\/' rel='post_tag'>quotes<\/a>"},"readTime":{"min":0,"sec":9},"status":"publish","content":"It is in everyday communicative action that adults learn to recognize the kinds of sophistry and manipulation that, on a larger scale, diminish the public sphere. Brookfield, 2010 p. 131"},{"id":2887,"link":"https:\/\/towardknowing.com\/corruption\/","name":"corruption","thumbnail":{"url":false,"alt":false},"title":"Corruption","postMeta":[],"author":{"name":"Yoodei Mon","link":"https:\/\/towardknowing.com\/author\/yoodei\/"},"date":"Nov 17, 2025","dateGMT":"2025-11-18 02:45:00","modifiedDate":"2025-11-17 19:52:24","modifiedDateGMT":"2025-11-18 02:52:24","commentCount":"0","commentStatus":"open","categories":{"coma":"<a href=\"https:\/\/towardknowing.com\/category\/wisdom\/\" rel=\"category tag\">Wisdom<\/a>","space":"<a href=\"https:\/\/towardknowing.com\/category\/wisdom\/\" rel=\"category tag\">Wisdom<\/a>"},"taxonomies":{"post_tag":"<a href='https:\/\/towardknowing.com\/tag\/nietzsche\/' rel='post_tag'>nietzsche<\/a><a href='https:\/\/towardknowing.com\/tag\/quotes\/' rel='post_tag'>quotes<\/a>"},"readTime":{"min":0,"sec":8},"status":"publish","content":"The surest way to corrupt a youth is to instruct him to hold in higher esteem those who think alike than those who think differently. 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If you're wondering if someone would notice if you weren't around anymore, they would. Someone would notice. If you're in your winter, find someone who is in their summer. 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It means putting oneself into a certain relation to the world that feels like knowledge -- and, therefore, like power. 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