Questions for Social Media Man
about President Eisenhower’s viscera.
These are Marshall McLuhan’s words (circa 1955) about the impact of electronic media on the human psyche and society. Substitute ‘twitter’ for ‘teeter’ and virtually anything for Eisenhower and you have a compelling picture of the present age. Information moving instantaneously to all parts of the globe, he writes, is explosive. 
We can, and do, have world events pouring through us like electricity. I can easily become a twitching, twittering nerve cell in a massive identity-robbing global network.
What are the emotional impacts of this for the individual?
Do we have a moral obligation to be present to all of this information - to feel it?
How can I live if I do not put up walls or selectively empathize?
Who do I become if I do put up walls and selectively empathize?
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