I look out here at this group of people and you look out there, that’s what you’re talking about with visual space.
McLuhan: John Locke has written an essay on human understanding. It’s all about visual space, because in his world of the 18th century, Newton’s world—Newton is a completely visual man. Nothing acoustic in Newton. All visual, all connected, all uniform, all logically tied together. And by the way, come electronic speeds, Newton was toppled and non-Newtonian physics took over, non-Euclidean geometry took over in about 1900. So visual man was obsolesced by electric speed. We are now living in a world in which the left hemisphere is obsolete, and the East is surging back into dominance. And our school systems are obsolesced. Nobody conspired; nobody had any intention of this happening because they didn’t understand
