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argument, is about scope, and he’s about being a
catalyst and an inspiration for others, he’s not
about that precision, that’s for a later generation.
But again, with somebody like Elizabeth Eisenstein
there’s this begrudging recognition of McLuhan,
this sense that, oh, he was so avant-garde, and he
so put off people about these kinds of studies that
they didn’t take them up. Well, to many of us
coming along later, that’s kind of hard to
understand since what he in fact did was put
forward this kind of inspired view of these master
historical patterns that allowed others to then
come along and do the more detailed work. There
was a reason why, as McLuhan said, historians,