re: the printing press, it's expansive but i prefer not to treat it seriously atm, because i was saying it in a more offhand way at the time. like just being playful.
so, while there are multitudes, for the purposes of rn: that's more of a protestant dig & a joke i was having w/ myself like 'wow she's so catholic she doesnt even believe in the printing press'
which ...
i mean no.
but maybe yes.
& yet certainly not.
a much more concise way of saying all this re: hannah
is that hannah, to me, was speaking at a time when "the apocalypse is here, just not evenly distributed" really would of been a dawning prescient statement re: the west, if she meant there was no turning this around & simply that the water level had now risen high enough
what we are seeing now if that it is so high, it is touching the chosen few, the privileged ones, the born very lucky for whom all of this was allegedly for
as in, if so much of the civilization project was about immense cost & murder for the dream of a literate middle class population w/ social mobility inside a functional democracy whose best & brightest could take us to the stars
yea idk about that
Might be of interest to read on this: https://www.amazon.com/Gutenberg-Parenthesis-Print-Lessons-Internet/dp/1501394827?dplnkId=ff4088ff-ab87-414d-9956-7f7f5bf8c944&nodl=1 been thinking recently a lot about someone saying the printing press brought a lot of societal harm initially until societies adapted their communication norms and parallels to now
