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But the point was that within popular culture, for
those particular people who were members of the
so-called television generation, a lot of what
McLuhan had to say made a good deal of sense.
Difficult to understand, not straightforward, not
the kind of thing you learn by rote, but the kind of
thing that maybe once upon a time, really forced
you to change your mind. I can’t tell you how many
people I’ve run across who can actually cite to me
the moment when they had some kind of
breakthrough. It almost sounds like a religious
experience, which is what terrified McLuhan’s
critics so much. Because they thought this was
McLuhanacy—that he was starting a whole kind of