Understanding McLuhan/Understanding McLuhan (1996)(Voyager)[Mac-PC].iso/pc/mcluhan.dxr/06829_Field_TCUM T394.txt

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care less.” The same integrity indicated by the term
“disinterested” as a mark of the scientific and scholarly temper
of a literate and enlightened society is now increasingly
repudiated as “specialization” and fragmentation of knowledge
and sensibility. The fragmenting and analytic power of the
printed word in our psychic lives gave us that “dissociation of
sensibility” which in the arts and literature since Cézanne and
since Baudelaire has been a top priority for elimination in every
program of reform in taste and knowledge. In the “implosion” of
the electric age the separation of thought and feeling has come
to seem as strange as the departmentalization of knowledge in
schools and universities. Yet it was precisely the power to
separate thought and feeling, to be able to act without
reacting, that split literate man out of the tribal world of close
family bonds in private and social life.