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Marshall McLuhan in Conversation with Mike McManus - Friday May 7 2010 2010 at 10:30 pm ET

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Marshall McLuhan in Conversation with Mike McManus
(1977)
Friday May 7 2010 2010 at 10:30 pm ET

In one of the few interviews that Marshall McLuhan granted before his death in 1980, he talks to TVO host Mike McManus about modern regionalism and separatism, nostalgia, violence and identity, television as an addictive tranquillizer, propaganda and his reasons for becoming a Roman Catholic.

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  • ty ty ty for posting this - next question - are you going to post the entire interview?

  • yea, I would also appreciate the full interview!!! McLuhans revival should be on youtube!

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  • Marshall is my grandfather he does not know me as he gave up his son for adoption. My father Robert was born in Oct of 1946 in North York Marshall wanted nothing to do with him as his mother was native indian he was later put into orphanages until adopted by a Ross and Onna Oliver who raised him in a small town North of Toronto called Fenelon Falls. my father robert oliver had a hard time getting answers from the adoption agency but finanlly they were obligated to tell the truth he is his Father

  • 'All forms of violence are a quest for identity.'

    hmmmm

    hmmmm

    ...

    hmmmm

  • @TRESBELA He's talking about the people of the world being brought together by technology and the media. Read his book and look around you.

  • who are these "tribal people?" he speaks of. Savages? Are we talking about man or animals.

  • why such a short clip?

  • @20stefi10 This man had the truth from so long ago! "All forms of violence are a quest for identity."

  • TVO please post the whole interview of this!

  • @20stefi10 I could not have said it better myself. I wish McLuhan was alive today to see today's information age.

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