“You shall make you no carved likeness, no image of what is in the heavens above or what is on the earth below or what is in the waters beneath the earth. You shall not worship them.”

Deuteronomy 5:7-9 as translated by Robert Alter, The Five Books of Moses, w.w, Norton & Company, New York, 2004)

Consider the Psalmist’s description of the idols and that of those who worship them: “They that make them shall be like unto them. and so will all who trust in them” (Psalms 115:8).

This passage in Psalms describes the inanimate  Idols and the danger of our losing our human capacities through our inattention to the impact of the tools we shape:

Their idols are silver and gold. The handiwork of man,

A mouth they have but they do not speak,

 Eyes they have but they do not see.

Ears they have but they do not hear, 

A nose they have but they do not smell.

Their hands-but they do not feel;

 Their feet-but they do not walk; 

They make not sound with their throat.

(Translation by Robert Alter, The Book of Psalms)

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our obligations to be in our senses

McLuhan media as extensions to be leveraged ->visual