cuts you at the past. You make decisions about 
the world before the world has had time to mature. 
You jump to conclusions and make judgments 
about the good and the bad. And you lose your 
sense of perspective, your sense of humor, your 
distance and your ability to perceive. You start 
falling into a kind of a trap of your own making, 
you know, that creates, “les oeillères,” as we say 
in French. So I think that is why there hasn’t been 
more McLuhans. Because if you think of Marcuse 
for example, he could have been an incredibly 
interesting person like McLuhan. I don’t see the 
reservation of Marcuse. There is nothing that 
Marcuse has left that we need anymore. There is a