Understanding McLuhan/Understanding McLuhan (1996)(Voyager)[Mac-PC].iso/pc/mcluhan.dxr/05494_Field_OMMA T14.txt

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I’ve noticed since doing the biography that I see
this constantly. When people talk about media or
society there’s always a moral tone to it. As if by
making a moral statement a) they establish the
fact that they are moral people and b) that they
are serious people. And this McLuhan always
thought was just an evasion of the worst sort. As
he used to say, “Moral indignation is a technique
used to endow the idiot with dignity.” Of his
specific insights, I’m not sure—about television for
example—but I think he certainly has left us an
example of a kind of mind that, can at least make
serious attempt to look at things freshly.