Understanding McLuhan/Understanding McLuhan (1996)(Voyager)[Mac-PC].iso/pc/mcluhan.dxr/06515_Field_TCUM T80.txt

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arrangements, social, political, and economic, had shared a
one-way pattern. We still think of it as “explosive,” or
expansive; and though it no longer obtains, we still talk about
the population explosion and the explosion in learning. In fact,
it is not the increase of numbers in the world that creates our
concern with population. Rather, it is the fact that everybody in
the world has to live in the utmost proximity created by our
electric involvement in one another’s lives. In education,
likewise, it is not the increase in numbers of those seeking to
learn that creates the crisis. Our new concern with education
follows upon the changeover to an interrelation in knowledge,
where before the separate subjects of the curriculum had stood
apart from each other. Departmental sovereignties have melted
away as rapidly as national sovereignties under conditions of
electric speed. Obsession with the older patterns of mechanical,
one-way expansion from centres to margins is no longer