144 Spot the Simulation

Do you ever feel like you’re in a simulation? Have you seen this show before? Heard this song before? Had this conversation before? Read this book before? We know what C.S. Lewis would say about the last question. The answer is yes, you have read this book before, because all books in our tradition are just fan fiction of previous books, going all the way back to ancient Greece and Rome. On this week’s Mosaic Ark the ladies continued their discussion of the collection of C.S. Lewis’s lectures called The Discarded Image, and how every medieval author held the same view of creation. We also begin a very deep dive into one of Lewis’s contemporaries, Marshall McLuhan, and discuss how his work about the electronic medium of television predicted the retrieval of the medieval through the internet. We would love to hear your ideas about Lewis and McLuhan, so please leave a comment—which you can, since this is the Internet, not a book! —Streamed August 15, 2025