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You mean aside from the fact that his quasi-mystical, self-important proclamations have no factual basis? I personally dislike how his ideas cast a cynical veneer over truly transformative changes without actually contributing anything useful to the conversation.

Who takes this stuff as gospel? Academics who study critical theory?



McLuhan is anything but a cynic. It sounds like you haven’t read him.




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