Understanding McLuhan/Understanding McLuhan (1996)(Voyager)[Mac-PC].iso/pc/mcluhan.dxr/01940_Field_OMPA T38.txt

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there drinking my coffee, it’s very clear to me that
the Appollonian part of my brain shuts down and
something else opens up, and it’s almost like a
pure, non-critical—here’s where Neil Postman gets
very anxious—it’s absolutely non-critical. It is a
part of the brain that is pure observation. Pure
observation without cultural preconception. This is
why the very thing Neil Postman condemns—he’s
saying that the person watching television has no
critical sense whatever—is to me the real
multiculturalism of TV. It seems to me we have to
stop referring to TV as the idiot tube or it’s an
idiot experience, or like couch potatoes, or all that.
I don’t believe that for a minute. I find that I have