Understanding McLuhan/Understanding McLuhan (1996)(Voyager)[Mac-PC].iso/pc/mcluhan.dxr/01745_Field_OMLA T14.txt

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as if the media were canals or roads or highways;
he talks about it in very practical literal way, and
that once we get used to using these media, our
tools shape us and that then leads to different
habits of thought, and I think that’s happening. An
understanding of McLuhan helps me to understand
why our politics are what they are, why our
entertainments are what they are, why our literary
forms are not the way they were 20 or 30 years
ago—people now tend to write much shorter
length and, once you have photography and once
you have television, you don’t need Dickens to
explain to you what the lower depths of London
look like, so it shifts our means of expression as