Michael Krahn : The Ascent to Truth

Consuming media has an effect on our subliminal cognitive faculties. McLuhan would say the content of the television that you’re watching is far less important (McLuhan would say that content doesn’t matter at all but I think that takes it a bit far) than the fact that you’re sitting silent and motionless for hours while asking your brain to process more information (in the form of light and sound) than it was ever designed to handle. That at the core is the meaning of “the medium is the message”.

“The ‘content’ of a medium is like the juicy piece of meat that the burglar throws to distract the watchdog of the mind.”

“Now” is where we are at, but how was our understanding of God shaped (for good and bad) in each technological era? Now, what principles can we learn from those to guide us through the current era and next era?

For example, today the internet enables anonymity while the printing press did the opposite and allowed people to escape anonymity by publishing and proliferating their written output. This lead to new “authorities” on religion, philosophy. etc. based on celebrity/popularity.

Michael Krahn (michael.krahn@gmail.com) is a husband, father, Pastor, writer, and recording artist who enjoys books, theology, technology and the Ottawa Senators.
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