Understanding McLuhan/Understanding McLuhan (1996)(Voyager)[Mac-PC].iso/pc/mcluhan.dxr/02709_Field_MOPM T7.txt

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Now, the electoral system—one little vote at a time,
as a means of representing public images and public
representatives—is utterly obsolete. It’s finished.
Image-making, which is the thing that puts people
like Trudeau and Nixon into office, has nothing to
do with voting. But Castro, he didn’t try to reform
anything, he just bypassed the whole electoral
system and went onto TV and talked straight to his
people on an educational basis. He turned politics