Understanding McLuhan/Understanding McLuhan (1996)(Voyager)[Mac-PC].iso/pc/mcluhan.dxr/01742_Field_OMLA T11.txt

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McLuhan-like figures in the ’60s—I mentioned
Buckminster Fuller as one of them. Some people
would assign the same rank to John Lennon, or
Bob Dylan, or the young Jack Kennedy. But the
period, at least in the United States, beginning with
the assassinations of both Jack and Bobby
Kennedy, and the loss of the war in Vietnam and
the disillusions that accompanied the Watergate
investigations, and a general drawing away form a
poetic statement towards a systems analysis.
Historians tend to write less large general histories
with grand theories than very heavily footnoted
and narrowly defined tracts. So the impulse has
been towards retraction. The ’70s were called the