Hegel believed that history progressed dialectically or from the synthesis of two opposing forces. In terms of lds.org, and the organization it represents, much of what it has to offer the world is opposite of what the world wants. It is antithetical to the world and that is a good thing. But, from what I argue in the video, it is only antithetical in terms of the content and not the form. Or, in the messages it shares and not the mediums it uses.
The Medium is the Message
Marshall McLuhan was a non-dualist, like Hegel, who thought that you couldn't separate the medium from the message. He is famous for saying and coining the phrase, "The medium is the message." Lds.org attempts to set the trend in terms of it's messages, but merely follows the trend in terms of its mediums. Maybe there is a way they could teach their message of Love of God and of all mankind better than through the sometime isolating medium of social media. Maybe it can provide training to it's members on how to use social media correctly. How to avoid, as one of their leaders Elder Bednar said, living of the world, but not in it when we are supposed to live in it, but not of it.
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