1. The American Revolution was a media war – fur traders vs. settlers (Harold Innis).
2. The American Civil War was a media war – the telegraph vs. New England industry (Marshall McLuhan).
3. Watergate was a media war – television vs. newspapers for the advertising dollar (Marshall McLuhan).
4. The Trump Era is a multi-body war (Ingredients: the Chemical Body, the Astral Body, the TV Body, and the Chip Body) –
President Trump’s “Rumpelstiltskin” vs. the Android Meme’s quadrophrenia (the Four Bodies in discontinuous hyper-exchange that can be organized conveniently via McLuhan’s tetrad for useful pattern-recognition [like a comforting security blanket]).
Ethics can’t be applied in getting a perspective on this PARAMODERN war (for starters, see McLuhan’s statements on how “discarnate man” cannot live or be judged under Natural Law “conditions”.
