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our own period of life and our own period of
history is transitory, and we are in a very big
transition, but if anybody was to chart the course
of that transition, it was McLuhan. And so there
are two things that are worth exploring here. One
of them is, why is it that he is coming back to the
fore now, and why not before? And secondly, is
the fact that he’s coming back to the fore now
permanent, or yet another wave of fashion? These
are good questions to ask oneself. The first
question, as to why he fell out of fashion, and why
he was pretty well abandoned—and I don’t mean
by that the rejection that he was getting all the
time and has and still is getting from Canada—