tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11542449.post2913638283098021299..comments2024-03-28T15:39:28.239-04:00Comments on Vital Remnants: The Decline and Fall of the Book: Why the demise of the Encyclopedia Britannica means the end of Western civilizationMartin Cothranhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16452612266051351726noreply@blogger.comBlogger20125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11542449.post-73088986893834074852012-03-27T12:04:02.223-04:002012-03-27T12:04:02.223-04:00Martin, are you coming to the CiRCE conference in ...Martin, are you coming to the CiRCE conference in July? My email address is Winston.Elliott@ImaginativeConservative.org.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04879065898537009269noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11542449.post-15747011423877484622012-03-27T00:07:17.512-04:002012-03-27T00:07:17.512-04:00Martin, have you been following the comments on ou...Martin, have you been following the comments on our post of this essay on The Imaginative Conservative?Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04879065898537009269noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11542449.post-29014890720917161722012-03-24T10:20:23.488-04:002012-03-24T10:20:23.488-04:00Martin,
I missed the hyperbole. I suppose that o...Martin,<br /><br />I missed the hyperbole. I suppose that one problem in reading people who regularly post views on the extreme edge of things is to know when they are being hyperbolic. When you are a mile away, it's hard to see someone else say they are mistrepresenting their postion by a foot.<br /><br />However, the fault in mine, in that I have not yet learned sufficiently to see the One Browhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11938816242512563561noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11542449.post-25702322275709675972012-03-23T20:48:39.833-04:002012-03-23T20:48:39.833-04:00One Brow,
I guess you missed the intentional hype...One Brow,<br /><br />I guess you missed the intentional hyperbole of the early part of the post. Did you read the part from Plato's Phaedrus, the point of which was that new technologies bring both progress and trouble, an acknowledgement that even Kindle brings about a little of both?Martin Cothranhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16452612266051351726noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11542449.post-48295604340856267932012-03-23T17:03:15.105-04:002012-03-23T17:03:15.105-04:00your.your.Martin Cothranhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16452612266051351726noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11542449.post-3029445456264216822012-03-23T17:03:04.307-04:002012-03-23T17:03:04.307-04:00Winston,
I'd be honored. I love you blog.Winston,<br /><br />I'd be honored. I love you blog.Martin Cothranhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16452612266051351726noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11542449.post-31609772411328913882012-03-23T16:59:44.030-04:002012-03-23T16:59:44.030-04:00Winston,
I'd be honored. I love you blog.Winston,<br /><br />I'd be honored. I love you blog.Martin Cothranhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16452612266051351726noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11542449.post-43470269057465372592012-03-23T12:39:45.113-04:002012-03-23T12:39:45.113-04:00Mr. Cothran,
I am interested in posting this essa...Mr. Cothran,<br /><br />I am interested in posting this essay on my site, The Imaginative Conservative (www.imaginativeconservative.org), with appropriate credit and link. Is this agreeable to you?Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04879065898537009269noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11542449.post-44747485342278872702012-03-23T09:59:10.360-04:002012-03-23T09:59:10.360-04:00Martin,
If the classical education and emphasis o...Martin,<br /><br />If the classical education and emphasis on logic produces people who can so completely miss the point of that analogy, perhaps you should stop trumpeting for them.<br /><br />Transmitting cultural information by electronic reader is different from doing it by book, just as transmitting it by book is different from transmitting it by town storyteller. The difference is that youOne Browhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11938816242512563561noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11542449.post-19745236368123850322012-03-22T17:13:30.770-04:002012-03-22T17:13:30.770-04:00One Brow,
I'd check to see if your reading gl...One Brow,<br /><br />I'd check to see if your reading glasses were operating properly and read it again, since it doesn't have much bearing on what I actually wrote.Martin Cothranhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16452612266051351726noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11542449.post-42170072769290372622012-03-22T17:04:32.836-04:002012-03-22T17:04:32.836-04:00The fall of Western Civilization was obviously whe...The fall of Western Civilization was obviously when mass literacy replaced the town storyteller. Stories used to be personal things, shared as a group, not read on your own, your mind stayhng private. Stories responded to the culture of the town, connecting directly to the people there.<br /><br />That is how silly your diatribe sounds.One Browhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11938816242512563561noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11542449.post-86837294131009098262012-03-22T14:36:58.327-04:002012-03-22T14:36:58.327-04:00I did it from memory.I did it from memory.Martin Cothranhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16452612266051351726noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11542449.post-9275823667159292022012-03-22T11:56:39.731-04:002012-03-22T11:56:39.731-04:00Martin, did you check the correct title to the poe...Martin, did you check the correct title to the poem by looking in a book, or going online?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11542449.post-63567917604783628662012-03-21T23:46:32.232-04:002012-03-21T23:46:32.232-04:00Oops. A timing glitch there. I retract the imputat...Oops. A timing glitch there. I retract the imputation.R.A. Litherlandhttp://www.orangeclawhammer.net/noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11542449.post-71707928181582240772012-03-21T23:45:52.796-04:002012-03-21T23:45:52.796-04:00R. A. Litherland,
I acknowledged it right above y...R. A. Litherland,<br /><br />I acknowledged it right above your last comment. Maybe you didn't see it before you posted?Martin Cothranhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16452612266051351726noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11542449.post-21462494833386225602012-03-21T23:44:09.013-04:002012-03-21T23:44:09.013-04:00Ah, I see. Correcting your mistake with no acknowl...Ah, I see. Correcting your mistake with no acknowledgement -- this is the way the right works. Do you teach the unfortunate children subjected to your version of home "schooling" that this is legitimate?R.A. Litherlandhttp://www.orangeclawhammer.net/noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11542449.post-26048473263846989652012-03-21T23:38:17.558-04:002012-03-21T23:38:17.558-04:00I have changed the reference to "The Wastelan...I have changed the reference to "The Wasteland," to "The Hollow Men," a mistake which R. A. Litherland has pointed out.Martin Cothranhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16452612266051351726noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11542449.post-31290209699507716802012-03-21T19:44:13.872-04:002012-03-21T19:44:13.872-04:00This entry should be re-named "The Decline an...This entry should be re-named "The Decline and Fall of Intelligent Design Creationism".<br /><br />In his book, Meyer invokes Polyani in Chapter 11 to argue, in essence, that the medium is not the message - the chemistry of DNA and RNA does not constitute the (alleged) information that ID proponents claim to see in living things. <br /><br />So it's a surprise to read that Martin Arthttp://aghunt.wordpress.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11542449.post-44962002614527301692012-03-21T18:50:34.048-04:002012-03-21T18:50:34.048-04:00I find it amusingly ironic that an internet blogge...I find it amusingly ironic that an internet blogger is mourning the passing of the printed page. Of course change always brings loss. I imagine people mourned the loss of their relationship with their horse when it was replaced with a car.KyCobbnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11542449.post-56500475374606233172012-03-21T05:34:26.454-04:002012-03-21T05:34:26.454-04:00'A book can almost have a personality. It was ...'A book can almost have a personality. It was written by somebody, and it is about something. Neither of these things can be said of a Kindle, or a Nook, or an iPad. They are not written at all and are not about anything.'<br /><br />You do realize that Kindles and Nooks and what have you display exactly the same letters as the printed work, only on a different substrate?<br /><br />I Singringhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02180277470418724600noreply@blogger.com