Ireland / Dublin - James Joyce’s 1924 publication of Finnegans Wake
Joseph Campbell’s Sarah Lawrence College for women, “Comparative Mythology”
Marshall McLuhan’s University of Toronto study of media ecology / electric media systems / book publishing social changes and history of media

“The unformulated message of an assembly of news items from every quarter of the globe is that the world today is one city. All war is civil war. All suffering is our own.” - Marshall McLuhan, University of Toronto

I think our clergy is still doing what they did before the advent of electric media systems. Other than televangelism, but they are still just covering religion texts on a routine (typically weekly) basis like a classroom. I say this, as it’s the absence that concerns me: when a war breaks out with Russia invading Ukraine, the clergy does not shift their attention to preach end war, end hate, this is a mistake.

The press / news flocks to war outbreaks, but the compassion and love teachers of society - the religion clergy, does not.

“The newspapers have to have bad news, otherwise there would be only ads, or good news. Without bad news we could not discern the ground rules of the environment. This does not necessarily mean the environment is bad, but it means its operation upon us is total and ruthless. The environment is always the brainwasher, so that the well-adjusted person, by definition, has been brainwashed. He is adjusted.” - Marshall McLuhan, Vision 65 (October 1965)

And the psychologists and psychiatrists don’t shift attention to a war outbreak or an outbreak of mass psychosis. When the clergy goes bad and starts teaching terrorism, the psychologists and psychiatrists and mental health professionals don’t shift attention to those in need…