CDN221H1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Media Of Canada, Electronic Filter, Oral Literature
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January 16 2017 (l02) medium theory part i. Bias personal views cloud objective judgement . Innis uses bias in a rather different sense, more objective sense, a bias for whole society that makes people see things in a certain light and not another. Innis claims that every society sticks a focus on what it can see and can"t see bias towards what we can notice and what we cannot. Minerva"s owl symbolizes wisdom, goddess of wisdom. He means - you only start to get really smart when it"s too late . Most life decision you must make before you have enough experience to make them, you get enough wisdom and experience after you"ve almost or already done it, when it"s too late. The above point applies to the whole society insight only comes to society when it"s too late, when trouble has already occurred.
