Understanding McLuhan/Understanding McLuhan (1996)(Voyager)[Mac-PC].iso/pc/mcluhan.dxr/06790_Field_TCUM T355.txt

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by hacking the universe into visual segments, ended the music
of interrelation. The visual desacralizes the universe and
produces the “nonreligious man of modern societies.”

     Historically, however, Eliade is useful in recounting how,
before the age of the clock and the time-kept city, there was
for tribal man a cosmic clock and a sacred time of the
cosmogony itself. When tribal man wanted to build a city or a
house, or cure an illness, he wound up the cosmic clock by an
elaborate ritual reenactment or recitation of the original
process of creation. Eliade mentions that in Fiji “the ceremony
for installing a new ruler is called ‘creation of the world.’” The
same drama is enacted to help the growth of crops. Whereas
modern man feels obligated to be punctual and conservative of
time, tribal man bore the responsibility for keeping the cosmic
clock supplied with energy. But electric or ecological man (man