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car.” This is irrelevant. If one listens to the man,
this is not relevant.
Similarly, when he talked about the possibilities
that may come with global extension of
consciousness that he thought was quite a
possibility given global communications—and
again, I think there is a certain resonance be it with
the Internet or with what we know has gone on—
when he did that, again his point was sometimes
pro and sometimes con. Read closely, McLuhan is
ambivalent, as most of his critics were. But his
point and where his strength lies is that he kept
pushing back that envelope of understanding,