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I’m not sure about McLu’s connecting Mary with Wisdom here (“playing before God in the beginning” — Prov 8?). But good stuff re. “faith comes from hearing” and his own conversion. “You have to knock pretty hard.”
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McLuhan seems fairly optimistic about there being so much “information available, instantly and totally, at all times” (as he says).
Do y’all think the seventies were a more optimistic time?
I don’t think so. I recall it being a big bummer of a decade and even at my young age (I was born in 1965) I was quite aware of everyone experiencing it as a bummer in real time.
McLuhan sees the downside, too, but, yes, overall he is pretty upbeat about the possibilities of new technologies. He sees more clearly than most that the era of the printed word (after Gutenberg) had narrowing effect on how the person experienced reality. Sensory experience was thrown out of balance by the visual homogeneity of printed text. So McLuhan sees humanity on the cusp of a hopeful corrective (and a new set of problems arising, too, certainly) with the advent of electronic technologies.
Thanks. Yeah. I guess extrapolating from one man (in one interview) to a whole decade is a bit of a leap.
Have you read much McLuhan? Or have any of you? I decided to pick up Understanding Media, and it is really interesting, so far, but I don’t think I totally understand about “hot” vs. “cool” media. I don’t quite understand why television is a “cool” medium, for example, whereas radio is “hot.” (Maybe I just don’t understand what the terms themselves mean to McLuhan.)
Any thoughts?
I’m working on The Gutenberg Galaxy and planning to tackle Understanding Media after that. Hoping to locate points of contact with Walker Percy’s semiotics.
I just came across a book called Digital McLuhan that may help clarify hot vs cool. Hot is hi-def, multi-layered, assaultive; cool is low-def, minimalist, seductive. I’d say TV has gotten hotter and radio cooler these days.
TV at its hottest.
‘Scarfolk is a town in North West England that did not progress beyond 1979. Instead, the entire decade of the 1970s loops ad infinitum.’
Okay, that’s the most terrifying thing I’ve ever seen on the Internet.
You mean to tell us you’ve never entered… The Gobbler?
If Weiner had any cojones, he’d send Don Draper there for the series finale. I know it’s gone. He’d build a new one, just for that episode.
Would you believe I had the same thought a few months ago about the Gobbler as the setting for Mad Men‘s series finale? (Resurrecting Howard Johnson’s, that was just practice.)
I nominate this song as the soundtrack to the finale’s last scene and end credits, to provide some symmetry with the first scene of the pilot.
I like the symmetry, but of course, now I must destroy the Korrektiv. Too clever by half, Mr. Nguyen.
No, I give you ideas; you give me money.
better idea: you give ideas to Mike Judge about a bunch of quirky Catholics at a time near the end of the world. Then he gets a season together which will then be be shunned/abused by the networks like The Goode Family was.
Thanks, Mr S. I blog sacred and profane Korrektories, I tell you what.
Were you aware of número nueve on this list? Might have [had] some crossover appeal.
that was probably the era/people that spawned the Helvetica Scenario
Write that down in your copybook.
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Good description of the contrast between faith and the world’s point of view. Nice post.