We Are the Digitals (after T.S. Eliot) We are the Digitals, wandering in webs, A scattered tribe of signals, sparks, and threads. No voices here, but hums and hisses, Algorithms sing to our sleepless glances, Shadows caught in glowing screens, Our faces lit in quiet trance. In fragmented worlds, Tim Bouma Nov 3, 2024, 10:15 PM
trivium The #trivium as we know it—consisting of grammar, logic, and rhetoric—wasn’t formally created by the Stoics, but #Stoic philosophy did significantly shape and influence two of these three areas, particularly logic and rhetoric. The concept of the trivium as an organized curriculum came later, primarily through Roman… Tim Bouma Nov 3, 2024, 12:42 PM
“The effect of phonetic literacy on the Greek psyche and culture was devastating. Mimesis gave way to individualized detachment and the integrating oral logos was broken into multiple fragments.” Marshall McLuhan, Laws of Media, published posthumously in 1988.… Tim Bouma Nov 3, 2024, 12:30 PM
Studying Marshall McLuhan, I’ve realized that cryptographic money will eventually have the same effect as the phonetic alphabet. The power of the phonetic alphabet was the semantic meaningless of its symbols that could be mapped to the utterances of any language. The phonetic alphabet was vastly more efficient than… Tim Bouma Nov 3, 2024, 12:22 PM
