E189. Thomas de Zengotita Encourages Humanity To See Itself As One Being

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🗓️ 14 July 2022

⏱️ 80 minutes

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Mediated Series - Part 2: Published in 2005, Mediated: How the Media Shapes Your World and the Way You Live in It, became Bridget's bible for understanding the changing media landscape and how it is affecting our society and behavior. Now she sits down with author Thomas de Zengotita for a multi-part series discussing the book chapter by chapter. In Part 2 Thomas explains Justin's Helmet Principle and how it contributes to the evolution of the nanny state, how we're all finding ways to hold all the media noise at bay, why both indifference and intense ideological commitment are actually defense mechanisms against the incomprehensible flood of mediation that we're all living in, and why saying that the mediation of today is the same as TV when it came along is like saying a hurricane is just more breeze. They also cover why it isn't "either, or" anymore, it's almost always "both, and," how the slang that pops up among kids is like a canary in the coal mine, why confused people need a confused person to express the confusion that we're all feeling, how mediation is facilitated by the simple fact that a lot of it is good for us, and how being politically homeless, by definition, means not relying on preconceived filters that tell you what's happening before you even look at what's happening.

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1:43.0	This week on the podcast, I'm excited to be interviewing Thomas Desengotita.
1:50.0	He taught at the Draper Graduate Program at New York University from 1996 until 2017, and now teaches an evening philosophy seminar at the Dalton School.
2:01.0	He holds a B.A. M.A. and PhD in Anthropology from Columbia University.
2:07.0	He is author of mediated how the media shapes your world and the way you live in it.
2:12.0	And if anybody knows me or listens to my content or has heard me on Rogan, even I've mentioned this book, it is my Bible for the New World.
2:23.0	And I read it back in 2006, and once we started talking, I kind of begged him to do a series where we break down every one of his chapters and talk about the chapters.
2:35.0	The book is so dense, and I really want to go over what he talks about in depth and give it the time it needs.
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