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Hodierna Verba Veritatis et Sapientiae ““The United States is one of the great creations of history, like Rome or the Spanish Empire, realities which we enthusiastically study and understand today. And the United States is being created before our very eyes, at an accelerated rate that allows us to observe it within our lifetime, or even in less than a lifetime… Is this not an intellectually exciting spectacle? Has there […]

Hodierna Verba Veritatis et Sapientiae “In a culture like ours, long accustomed to splitting and dividing all things as a means of control, it is sometimes a bit of a shock to be reminded that, in operational and practical fact, the medium is the message. This is merely to say that the personal and social consequences of any medium-- that is, of any extension of ourselves -- result from the […]

Hodierna Verba Veritatis et Sapientiae “In a culture like ours, long accustomed to splitting and dividing all things as a means of control, it is sometimes a bit of a shock to be reminded that, in operational and practical fact, the medium is the message. This is merely to say that the personal and social consequences of any medium-- that is, of any extension of ourselves -- result from the […]

Hodierna Verba Veritatis et Sapientiae “Consequences. Change. He’s talking about effects. My dad once put it so simply and well: what made McLuhan’s theory of communication stand apart from the others was that McLuhan’s theories are based on transformation (the effects of technology on people and societies), and the conventional approach dealt with transportation (how information moves here and there, as typified in the Shannon-Weaver communication model)." - Andrew McLuhan […]

Hodierna Verba Veritatis et Sapientiae "The fact is now well known and associated with these changes, that the western world has entered a period of demoralization comparable to the periods when both Greece and Rome turned from growth to decay. Divorce, premarital sex experience, sex promiscuity, homosexuality, versatility in sex, birth control carried to excess, spread of birth control to every segment of the population, positive antagonisn to parenthood, clandestine […]

Hodierna Verba Veritatis et Sapientiae "The diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) bureaucracy is the nemesis of the Enlightenment ideal of knowledge. It puts relentless pressure on every academic department to hire on the basis of race and sex, not on the basis of intellectual achievement. Every faculty search today is a desperate effort to find even remotely qualified minority or female candidates. Being female or a non-Asian minority confers an […]