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Hollywood. In order to understand this age, in
order to analyze it, you have to use lucid, concrete
language. This seems to be obvious. You cannot
impose abstractions upon the pagan sensory
stimulations of mass media. This is where McLuhan
was right on. McLuhan was always interested in
the sensory. He believed that the sensory was the
real liberation. The sensory was the real revolution.
Interesting coming from a Catholic, who came out
of a very repressed background, and I think that
this is correct. We learn from mass media, we
absorb from mass media through the senses. It’s
not through the old, logical, rational, Appolonian
circuit. Therefore, the way to analyze media is