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Mediation
John Lachs was prophetic about the hazards of losing experiential immediacy in our lives, back in 1980 when he published Intermediate Man. Christine Rosen addresses the problem:
"There has always been and likely always will be a percentage of people who prefer armchair travel to the real thing, reproductions of paintings to the inconvenience of going to a museum, the safety and predictability of pornography to sex with a real person, and the cooking show to the cooked meal.
But in an age when nearly everything is reproducible as data, it's worth remembering that information about pleasure is not the same thing as the experience of it. As Huxley reminds us, understanding of this kind requires "a direct, unmediated contact with the new, the mystery, moment by moment, of our existence."" — The Extinction of Experience: Being Human in a Disembodied World by Christine Rosen
"There has always been and likely always will be a percentage of people who prefer armchair travel to the real thing, reproductions of paintings to the inconvenience of going to a museum, the safety and predictability of pornography to sex with a real person, and the cooking show to the cooked meal.
But in an age when nearly everything is reproducible as data, it's worth remembering that information about pleasure is not the same thing as the experience of it. As Huxley reminds us, understanding of this kind requires "a direct, unmediated contact with the new, the mystery, moment by moment, of our existence."" — The Extinction of Experience: Being Human in a Disembodied World by Christine Rosen
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