They Became What They Beheld: Medium, Message, Youtubery

A quickly-made muse on the foreword of anthropologist Edmund Snow Carpenter's They "Became What They Beheld," and how it relates to Youtube. This book is out of print. If you're interested, "Oh, What a Blow That Phantom Gave Me," another of his books, can be read online here: http://mediatedcultures.net/phantom/h...

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[Charlotte P]

oh my god this video is so smart! vihart, not only are you a math genius, and a doodling genius, and a weird-cooking genius, you are also this amazing dispenser of wisdom who has just said, and posted online for millions to see, some of the most meaningful things i have heard in all my 12 years of life. now please excuse me while i go share this with all my friends through every medium possible so that they all may partake of this valuable advice.

[Vihart]

This is why libraries exist and should continue to exist. Your local library may not have it, but they'll loan it out from one that does, if you ask.

[Aviel Menter]

Who says I'm trying to kill off books? i'm trying to preserve them, and the best medium to preserve them in is electronic storage.

[Chuck Norris]

There is no objective advantage of books over eBooks. It's all subjective, and it will stay that way forever because of it. Our society isn't built upon objective opinions, it's built upon what people want. And, people want to be able to open a new book and read it. We want to be able to feel the book in our hands as we flip the page, we want to get that new book smell. People like you really annoy me, trying to kill off books. They're the one thing that remains right in this world.

[Aviel Menter]

I don't really see any objective advantage of books over eBooks. Wouldn't you rather the book exist forever than exist exclusively in physical form?

[Chuck Norris]

I'm personally very against that concept. Books are books, and I personally very much dislike ebooks. I like to have an actual book, hold it and read it. Libraries should - and likely will - continue to exist for a very long time because of people like me. At least, I hope so.

[Micah Caldwell]

wow

[o0iona0o]

beautiful thanks!

[twilock1]

I have been searching for 3 decades for that book. Read it when I was 6, but could never remember the title or the author. Awesome, ideas as usual.

[Kim Jong-Un]

FUCK YEAH YOU'RE RIGHT. Love this