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numbers of people, and that’s about as much as
he would’ve wanted. He wasn’t out to win
popularity contests. If there’s a good McLuhan
reader published, I think it would do wonders. But I
think he will be seen as ultimately a much more
significant figure than some of his fellow
intellectual celebrities of the ’60s. People like
Herbert Marcuse and R.D. Lang, and to go from the
sublime to the ridiculous, Timothy Leary. I think as
time goes on their lustre increasingly will diminish,
but there is something about McLuhan that will
always intrigue a certain number of people. His
ultimate stature? He’s not going to be Kant or a
Hegel, but I think he will always be of interest to