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understand something of the revival.
I want to go back to the scholarly thing just for a
minute because the other thing that happened was
there is no way in which one can simply sit down,
take McLuhan’s works and answer that famous
question of Tom Wolfe: “Was he right? What if he
is right?” No you can’t quite do it that way. My
take is this: I think that McLuhan’s value lies in the
scope of his vision. His value doesn’t lie in the
precision of every particular thing he said. What he
gives us is a way of looking at these changes, and
making sense of them, both in terms of the large-
scale historical picture in which we find ourselves