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How Do We Know What We Want? | Neil Postman & René Girard

ByHerman Middleton

Watch As Video A subject rarely addressed, but that plays an increasing role in the lives of all people is that of desire, and in particular: how do we know what we want? As always, historical perspective is enlightening: before the dawn of modern advertising (and the industrialization that it was created to market) there…

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What Is A Technological Society? | Dr. Herman Middleton

ByHerman Middleton

Watch As Video Throughout history and throughout the world, there are different kinds of societies: religious societies, ideological (communist, etc.) societies, and so on. Most of us in the post-Christian West live in what is primarily a technological society. Certainly, this technological society may have influences from religious or ideological societies, but at the end…