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Kids’ Krusade for Krissendom
signal of the consequences of intellectual devolution. Given what I
have already said about our biological and cultural situation, you need
to understand that the preponderance of American citizens have not
been merely ‘dumbed down’ but infantilized to the point of not
comprehending even their most basic interests. Neoteny and two
generations of psychologically-engineered ‘cool media’—in
McLuhan’s sense—today make the dogmas and doctrines designed to
influence adults indistinguishable from those intended for children.”
He straightened up, knowing the interview could not go much
further. “How, in essence, can you stop appealing to immature minds
when you have no other audience?”
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