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approach. Stop going anywhere, you know.
I think there will be more McLuhans in the future.
The reason I am saying this is because the power
of the alphabet to constrict us in a specific way of
thinking has been enormous and has conditioned
our rational mind in a very powerful way. McLuhan
was somebody who was born into an alphabetic
mode very strongly. His mother read to him, every
day, some part of English literature. He himself
read from the OED, the Oxford English Dictionary,
every day, at least the definition of three words.
That could be several Bible-page small-print
columns of very very complex information. So he