Understanding McLuhan/Understanding McLuhan (1996)(Voyager)[Mac-PC].iso/pc/mcluhan.dxr/05396_Field_OMLO T13.txt

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A:  I don’t know, I haven’t studied it, because it is
not of interest to me. It didn’t give me any insights.
I think television is a cool medium and he had some
understanding of that medium. But the most
important insight that he had about television is
that it sucks the brains right out of your skull, and
that it is a non-educational medium. Television can
be informative. It cannot be educational—no one
ever got a cognant bit of insight watching
television. They can become informed, and they
can process that information later, but it’s a drug.
When I’m all relaxed after I’m really keyed up, like
I’m working at my computer—I’ve composed three
or four good pages and I can’t fly off to sleep, I