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age of scarcity, if you remember, and people were
saying “less is more” and that despite the facade
of giant recovery in the ’80s under the Reagan
administration, the temper at the times remains
very conservative. We have lots of experts and we,
generally speaking, the American literary world,
doesn’t trust poets unless they are clearly defined
as poets and are confined in cages in the
universities and write very tidy verse. McLuhan is in
many ways a poet, he has a poetic text, he writes
that way.
Q: What do you think will be his ongoing legacy?