Understanding McLuhan/Understanding McLuhan (1996)(Voyager)[Mac-PC].iso/pc/mcluhan.dxr/01805_Field_OMMC T33.txt

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looking at the present and saying, “Look, this
technology is doing this to you.” He’s been proven
right. I don’t know of any cases where he’s been
proven wrong. A lot of people have tried to test his
work, and every test that I know of, that we’ve
heard about, has borne out what he said. Mind
you, of course, as things recede from the present
into the past a few years, they become visible. The
one thing that you cannot see is the thing that
you’re enmeshed in. Like they say, the one thing a
fish can’t tell you about is water. Tell you about
anything else, other fish, or what they’re doing, or
what’s on TV, sure. But water, no. Can’t tell you
about water. That’s because it is so much a part