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Sometimes McLuhan got into trouble with these
off-the-cuff musings. I suppose the worst aspect,
if you want to call it that, was there was
somewhat of a tendency to superstition. Which
again is a false order imposed on reality. Also, I
suppose a touch of paranoia. For example, one
period of his life, in the early ’50s, he tended to
talk a lot to his friends, he had enough sense not
to write about this, but to his friends he’d always
be mentioning about the Masons and the Free
Masons as a kind of conspiracy, people everywhere
were at work thwarting his work. That’s the kind of
bogus order in the universe, the conspiracy theory.
So it’s a flip side of what were basically his