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Why do we keep going back to McLuhan?
A: Well, the other thing about McLuhan was he
wasn’t just talking about television, he was talking
about media, he was talking about the range of
human expression and making connections to the
development of the human consciousness and
psyche. His comments about literature and how it
formed the rational mind and how text creates the
rational mind is totally valid, and his comments
about television were totally valid—understanding
how that was another change or extension of the
human mind. And I think you can see from that,
from his analysis of media, how he might have