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The torture continues

The dissonance of agreeing with main premises but being baffled by the evidence.

From what I can tell, this book definitely struggles with the modernist ‘grand, sweeping narrative.’ I can get behind communication systems and their infrastructure as being “extensions of man,” but to identify them as THE driver of history seems far-fetched, especially in the ancient and medieval periods.

Stream of consciousness but it’s working for me

This is hard ass work. The Print, Comics. Meh to these ones.

Clothing, Housing, and Money - I liked Money but it was long. In Housing, did he really claim that igloos were invented after white people came to the americas???
"To live in such structures became possible with the coming of the white man and the portable stove"

I realized if I like a specific essay I should give a specific update. So far I think I've only liked a few of these essays and the most recent one was "the written word". About well the phonetic alphabet and how it flattens meaning and stuff.

This next one, roads and paper routes, claims that essentially the dark ages were brought on by the "Mohammedans" taking over the supply of papyrus... Time to mythbust?!