Me (September, 2010, age 58). Are you ready for it?
Having a point of view would seem to be a good idea. Presumably it is what blogs are all about. Yet there is a problem with them, as Marshall tells us.
Marshall McLuhan (January 13, 1966, age 54). It closes down exploration.
As I was telling my friend Tom Wolfe, “When you try to find out ‘what’s going on’ a point of view is not very useful.” The man with a point of view has no need to search for answers, he is convinced that he already has them. Rather than learn from the events that pass before his eyes, he spends his days emotionally reacting to them.
Cordially, Marshall and Me
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Letters of Marshall McLuhan, 1987, p. 332.
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