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Q: People sometimes talk about his ego, or
paranoia, or how he’d have ideas like lasers and
get right to the point of something, while other
ideas seemed almost mad. What was he like?
A: I think that one of the problems of McLuhan
arose from his strengths. His strong points had a
flip side. As a Catholic he was influenced by the
official philosophy of the Church, which was still
the St. Thomas Aquinas view of things—basically
which says that the universe is intelligible. In other
words, our senses and our reason working
together give us a basically trustworthy account
of the universe, we’re not being mislead. This, by