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you’ve got McLuhan’s whole technique. That’s
what he did. So he didn’t really care about the
future or the past, he just worked on the present.
He just worked on the present, and he found that
a full time occupation.
“The medium is the message” is pregnant with all
kinds of meanings. He used the title of a book
which came out in the late ’60s, ’68 or ’69, only he
twisted it a little. He called it The Medium is the
Massage . And that was to point out that there are
four puns in that little aphorism. “The medium is
the message,” the familiar phrase. But then split
that into two words: mess; age. It messes up, every