home
***
CD-ROM
|
disk
|
FTP
|
other
***
search
/
Understanding McLuhan
/
Understanding McLuhan (1996)(Voyager)[Mac-PC].iso
/
pc
/
mcluhan.dxr
/
07183_Field_TCUM T748.txt
< prev
next >
Wrap
Text File
|
1996-04-10
|
915b
|
16 lines
Broadway are surely a portent. If many of the rich and
successful figures in America were to question publicly the
absolute value of money and success as means to happiness
and human welfare, they would offer no more shattering a
precedent than Marilyn Monroe. For nearly fifty years, Hollywood
had offered “the fallen woman” a way to the top and a way to
the hearts of all. Suddenly the love-goddess emits a horrible
cry, screams that eating people is wrong, and utters
denunciations of the whole way of life. This is exactly the mood
of the suburban beatniks. They reject a fragmented and
specialist consumer life for anything that offers humble
involvement and deep commitment. It is the same mood that
recently turned girls from specialist careers to early marriage
and big families. They switch from jobs to roles.
The same new preference for depth participation has also