HBO's 'Game of Thrones' begins its final lap in April. On our first day exploring Shanghai together Chloe and I walked all over the Puxi side of Shanghai (west of the river). Walking down Nanjing Lu was like walking through the most decadent shopping mall I have ever been in. The street is literally lined with hundreds of high end stores and public artwork. There is a section of the road that is closed off to cars and is pedestrian only that feels a bit like Times Square but that just never ends. In contrast to the lavish stores of Nanjing Lu, when you look down the side streets they are crammed with apartment buildings with laundry hanging out the windows and vendors selling cheap food, knockoff bags, and anything else you might want.
For those who'd like a little more proof, Dr. Ian Stevenson's work with children is fascinating. Many skeptics suggest that people's recall of a "past life" is really just them remembering something they've read or discussed. When a very young child details something no way could they have known, the skeptics' explanations are often more farfetched than just believing it was an actual past life. Search on his name or book title for a detailed site.
So that, up to this point, according to McLuhan, "The perception of reality now depends upon the structure of information. The form of each medium is associated with a different arrangement, or ratio, among the senses, which creates new forms of awareness. These perceptual transformations, the new ways of experiencing that each medium creates, occur in the user, regardless of the program content. This is what the Paradox. "the medium is the message" means.
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