I am sorry to say that the American Christian conservative
Rod Dreher's book The Benedict Option: A Strategy for Christians in a
Post-Christian Nation (New York: Sentinel/ Penguin Groups, 2017) appears to
confirm McLuhan's claim that Christianity's historical contribution to
development of privacy in Western culture is under siege by our contemporary
secondary oral culture (in Ong's terminology).
I discuss Ong's mature work further in my lengthy OEN
article "Walter J. Ong's Philosophical Thought" (dated September 20, 2020):
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Thomas James Farrell is professor emeritus of writing studies at the University of Minnesota Duluth (UMD). He started teaching at UMD in Fall 1987, and he retired from UMD at the end of May 2009. He was born in 1944. He holds three degrees from Saint Louis University (SLU): B.A. in English, 1966; M.A.(T) in English 1968; Ph.D.in higher education, 1974. On May 16, 1969, the editors of the SLU student newspaper named him Man of the Year, an honor customarily conferred on an administrator or a faculty member, not on a graduate student -- nor on a woman up to that time. He is the proud author of the book (more...)