Now, in what Ong refers to as primary oral cultures (such as the pre-historic cultures of our small-group hunter-gatherer ancestors), and in residual forms of primary oral cultures (such as medieval Europe), what Bakan refers to as communion was alive and well. In addition, in the Roman Catholic tradition of thought to this day, the spirit of communion and connection consciousness is still expressed in residual forms of thought from medieval Catholicism. In Eric McLuhan's under-researched 2015 book, he in effect reminds us of the spirit of communion and connection consciousness in the Roman Catholic tradition of thought.
Now, thanks to extraordinary media coverage, Pope Francis has emerged as a media celebrity -- but not to the extraordinary extent to which Marshall McLuhan emerged as a media celebrity in the 1960s and 1970s. In any event, Pope Francis' widely publicized strafing of capitalism grows out of his understanding of the Roman Catholic tradition of thought about the spirit of communion and connection consciousness. Even Senator Bernie Sanders of Vermont, who is Jewish, commended Pope Francis for strafing of capitalism.
However, apart from the media coverage that the pope's strafing of capitalism has garnered for him, the deeper underlying issue informing his criticisms of capitalism involves the spirit of communion and connection consciousness.
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