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Nor can justice be done to his work by retrieving
his private opinions on the technologies he
diagnosed. Sometimes pro, sometimes con, the
point was his insistence that premature value
judgement prevented understanding.
“If a few people could only stop asking whether
this is ‘a good thing or a bad thing’ and spend
some time in studying what is really happening,
there might be some possibility of achieving
relevance.”(Letters , (1987) p.399 [1970])
One effective strategy for reappraising the
enduring relevance of McLuhan is to forget the