#mcprobe: Daily Bible Readings are for the Privileged Educated Individual

There's a whole industry of publishing built on the notion that good Christians read their Bibles daily. It's most likely part of the reason that the Bible remains an all time best-seller. It's certainly the reason that any Christian bookstore worth its weight will have a wide selection of "365 days of X for Y" type books. But, this activity, a daily reading of the Bible - normally to be carried out individually and accompanied by some kind of quiet reflection (que the journal industry) - is jammed packed full of privileged educated individual bias.

The Resurgence of Vinyl Records and the Rhythm of Life

Having been a collector of music on vinyl record for around 20 years now, it's a bit of a treat to be seeing a resurgence in its availability.

which kind of fits with McLuhan's tetrad concept of retrieval...where a previously obsolesced medium is brought back in a new way...

And whilst it's not a pure retrieval sense, because there's not a new medium that is retrieving the vinyl, perhaps it is a growing awareness in some of the ways the rapidly shifting media ecology is having unwanted impacts on our relationship with music.