Understanding McLuhan/Understanding McLuhan (1996)(Voyager)[Mac-PC].iso/pc/mcluhan.dxr/08453_Field_TCGG T218.txt

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relevance or importance, either in the “sacred” or “profane” as
presented by Eliade or any other “irrational” mystic of our time,
we would not belittle the merely cultural power of the
nonliterate and the literate forms of life to shape the
perceptions and biases of the entire human community. The
miseries of conflict between the Eastern and Roman churches,
for example, are a merely obvious instance of the type of
opposition between the oral and the visual cultures, having
nothing to do with the Faith.

     I would ask, however, whether it is not time that we put
these “childish things” under some sort of measured restraint
so that their perpetual brainwashings of the human community
be subjected to some degree of predictable operation. It has
been said that the inevitable war is one whose causes have not
been discerned. Since there can be no greater contradiction or