Understanding McLuhan/Understanding McLuhan (1996)(Voyager)[Mac-PC].iso/pc/mcluhan.dxr/01942_Field_OMPA T40.txt

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absolutely ridiculous. History must be taught.
History must be fully understood. Logic must be
taught and fully understood, because otherwise
you’re at the mercy of television. You don’t want
to be at the mercy of it. But then we have to have
a whole new discipline, it has to be entirely new.
The rules of study of television, it seems to me,
have to be made up. I think that the young people
of the ‘90s, they’re very interested in our ideas of
the ‘60s, and I hope that they will be able to put
our ideas into effect without making the mistakes
that we did. Because again, we did not enter the
professions. We thought we could change the
world without entering them. I think that the