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cuts you at the past. You make decisions about
the world before the world has had time to mature.
You jump to conclusions and make judgments
about the good and the bad. And you lose your
sense of perspective, your sense of humor, your
distance and your ability to perceive. You start
falling into a kind of a trap of your own making,
you know, that creates, “les oeillères,” as we say
in French. So I think that is why there hasn’t been
more McLuhans. Because if you think of Marcuse
for example, he could have been an incredibly
interesting person like McLuhan. I don’t see the
reservation of Marcuse. There is nothing that
Marcuse has left that we need anymore. There is a