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they are attacking him on very different grounds.
Many of us who look at the criticism now, argue
that many of his critics were highly motivated and
had agendas of their own. In particular during the
1960s, there were some very important political
agendas. While I think that McLuhan offered
something that those of a right wing or a left wing
persuasion should listen to, I think what the left in
particular found lacking in McLuhan is a serious
question that anybody reading McLuhan has to
take a look at: the question of power. McLuhan is
talking about power in a very different way. He’s
talking about creative power, he’s talking about
the power that we give away in effect when we