McLuhan's Wake

[mjfrattaroli]

I wish I could resurrect McLuhan and pick his brain on whats happening today.

Then again, "what is happening" is much more obvious to us now than it was in McLuhan's day. We are now so deep into the unfolding of this cosmic drama that all you've got to do is watch and you'll see it clear as day. This seems to me why McLuhan was a mysterious iconoclast in his day (though 'the people' still seemed to find his ideas irresistible), but today his ideas are far more obvious, or at least more paletable

[KrompChomp]

Happy 100th birthday Marshall McLuhan.

[MrAndiman22]

Dude was brilliant....I would say I get more then 10 % of what he was saying and more....awesome! Tks

[rabidapple]

I just watched the full-length feature, Wow McLuhan was a man outta time! What a great thinker

[lralon]

Check out Figure/Ground Communications' in-depth scholarly interview series with renown media ecologists, phenomenologists, and philosophers of technology, such as Eric McLuhan, Don Ihde, Andrew Feenberg, Albert Borgmann and Iain Thomson, among others:

figureground dot ca/interviews/

[lralon]

Check out Figure/Ground Communications' in-depth scholarly interview series with renown media ecologists, phenomenologists, and philosophers of technology, such as Eric McLuhan, Don Ihde, Andrew Feenberg, Albert Borgmann and Iain Thomson, among others:

figureground dot ca/interviews/

[HigherPlanes]

He was misunderstood because he was ahead of his time.

[milkingtherod]

:47 - Reality TV

1:09 - Internet Search Engines

2:20 - Culture of the Stupid that TV and the Internet has brought us

3:52 - he just blew your mind

[BuildBabylon]

@milkingtherod This man had the truth from so long ago! "All forms of violence are a quest for identity."

[rizlas2]

life is too short...one great mind can only accumulate so much knowledge...imagine Da Vinci could live 500 years...our life as we know it would be very different...

[jamesbrownintown]

I hate adds, remember when you-tube was add free?

[DoctorFeelGood657]

Once again his views were spot on but unfortunately were laughed at at that juncture. Brilliant video thanks for posting.

[bartonim]

The Internet is the perfect place to find just how less literate we've become. While I personally like the convenience, it's hard not to admit that discourse has fallen by the wayside. We no longer face others so much in debate as we do hurl insults electronically.

Just a footnote, The Who's album Who's Next was originally to be called Lifehouse, about a future society characterised by a communication/information 'web'; Marshall beat Pete and Co. only by a couple of years.

[TheWizzooo]

@bartonim

thanks for that bite at the end.

[kingalow1]

@bartonim

Yes, also at time when Pete made a lot of loud, beautiful noise through Marshall speakers. ;D

[oracleofottawa]

Note how old Marshall predicted the future of

Roy Thompsons empire! Today the Rueters-

Thompson monster only owns one paper in Canada -the Globe And Mail .. Everything else is

"electronic""

[fntime]

You Canadians are people who really

lack, any 'body receptivity', you lack

knowledge of the 'body''. I spell stupid.

c a n a d i a n. Can you dig it.

[suseaq51]

Amazing... great video. His ideas and concepts were beyond his years.

[deevinewizzdumb]

Brilliant mind :)

[happyslug]

OH MY GOD HE DESCRIBED THE INTERNET

[mfitzp]

1. Instantaneous diverse media transmission on global basis; simultaneous planetary feed and counter-feed. 2. Erodes human ability to code and decode in real time. 3. Brings back the Tower of Babel: group voice in the ether. 4. Reverses into loss of specialism; programmed earth.

[bartonim]

Yes, he was visionary. Pretty impressive intellect!

[simonorman]

@happyslug no, no. while seemingly prophetic, McLuhan instead simply proposed a decanted view of the effects of media and suggested "technological determinsism." In other words, he visualized a hypothesis that catalyzed the creation of the Internet. Engineers were heavily (and optimistically) influenced by McLuhanism.

[BuildBabylon]

@happyslug This man had the truth from so long ago! "All forms of violence are a quest for identity."

[knittastick]

@happyslug Yup!!

[lokigotya68]

If his critics could only see us now. The man was right. except we dont have packages sent with the info we have the internet. Welcome to the Maelstrom.

[Jjazzter]

I'm not a networking expert, but you seem to overlook the PACKET based nature of the TCP/IP protocol.

[lokigotya68]

You probably Know more about that then I do. I did however look it up on a web sight sorta understand it I think its what coorperations and the milatry use.

[mememutation]

Haha... so McLuhan was right about future man becoming less literate as well! (And you're wrong in your understanding of packets.)

YouTube comments, in general, vindicate McLuhan more than anything else that's ever been written in his defense.

Maybe you can find an 'Internet for Dummies' video somewhere, to help you understand packets -- even though search engines don't produce the best results for the marginally literate.

[lokigotya68]

Listen to what he says starting at 1:07 to 1:32. That is the statment that I commented about. When he talks about picking up the phone and have all the information you seek sent to you. we turn on or computers and if we need info on something we type it in and any information on the subject is listed so we can go to those web sites is all I was talking about before. When I was young if I had to do research I had to go to the library. Now we use the internent. That is what I ment.

[NeoOneOrg]

Do you understand this well? It is how communism is taking over the world. Indoctrination in the inevitibility of gradualness. The reason there is so much division destroying the unity of humanity when it comes to true wisdom "God" IE wisdom is natural. Religion: Enhance, Retrieve, obsolesce, reverse. We are in the reverse as people have lost instinctive wisdom which is the basis of addiction to our means of human extension. more dysfunction more need to control,a basis of what forms the matrix.

[NeoOneOrg]

There is much more to the laws of media than what meets the eye. Apply the laws of media to ever human extension and you will see that it is the basis of how society as a collective is being dumded from instinctive nature or wisdom. I have grasped these concepts clearly enough to see that "mediums" obsolesce humanities ability to communicate effectively.

Government: Enhance, Retrieve, Obsolesce, reverse. The stage we are in is in reverse when pushed too far..

[AppA]

...direct personal service.

[NeoOneOrg]

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[flyagaric23]

FINN AGAIN.

Finnegans Wake...

AWAKE!

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[NeoOneOrg]

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[AmbientMusic]

He NAILED It!