Understanding McLuhan/Understanding McLuhan (1996)(Voyager)[Mac-PC].iso/pc/mcluhan.dxr/05504_Field_OMMA T24.txt

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the way, is very contrary to the prevailing
intellectual mode today. But because he held to
this, he felt that you could sort of trust the
patterns that you saw. That there was basically an
order in the world, and although it wasn’t a visual
diagram—that was a print assumption—there was
a kind of deep order. Because he believed that, and
he believed that if you recognized patterns you
were on to something, you didn’t have to wait for
decades and decades of scientific research to
figure out whether the order or the coherence of
the patterns you saw was a truthful one. I think he
was saying you could basically trust your
perceptions.