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that we would all achieve this pentacost of
consciousness.
What happens with his critics is they make two
mistakes with McLuhan. On the one side, they only
read select passages, and they don’t put it in the
context of his larger work, which in my view we
have an obligation to do now. Many of them
stopped reading him in the ’60s but he did in fact
continue developing his ideas long after that, in
fact for a whole decade until he died in the 1980s.
But the other thing is, McLuhan’s a difficult read in
a sense because he uses satire, he called his
method Manipian satire. He had several techniques