Transition21 | Vortex – Marshall McLuhan @tinylinkCC | Uploaded January 2017 | Updated October 2024, 4 hours ago.
To illustrate the condition that we are in, Marshall McLuhan liked to use Edgar Allen Poe's story of A Descent into the Maelström.

"By studying the pattern of the effects of this huge vortex of energy in which we're involved, it may be possible to program a strategy of evasion and survival."

mcluhangalaxy.wordpress.com/2013/05/12/using-pattern-recognition-to-survive-the-technological-maelstrom