Comments on: What was McLuhan up to at Bilderberg? http://marshallandme.com/what-was-mcluhan-up-to-at-bilderberg/ Sun, 11 Sep 2011 18:15:33 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Michael Edmunds http://marshallandme.com/what-was-mcluhan-up-to-at-bilderberg/comment-page-1/#comment-93 Michael Edmunds Thu, 29 Apr 2010 13:21:19 +0000 http://marshallandme.com/what-was-mcluhan-up-to-at-bilderberg/#comment-93 McLuhan (speaking through student Sheila Watson's thesis) uses Lewis to note I think that being numbed by our own self extensions ain't no "laughing matter." Observe-Laugh- repeat as necessary. Watson: The characteristic work of conscious personality, Lewis believed, is to overcome the mechanical ascendency imposed on it by birth and environment. Its mark is the mechanical incompetence which separates it from matter. It resists the hysterical somnambulism which results from its identification with his own projections or extensions. In the interests of truth the mind must sneeze, then laugh. “Laughter is the Wild Body’s song of triumph.... Laughter does not progress. It is primitive, hard, and unchangeable" McLuhan (speaking through student Sheila Watson’s thesis)
uses Lewis to note I think that being numbed by our own self extensions ain’t no “laughing matter.” Observe-Laugh- repeat as necessary.

Watson:
The characteristic work of conscious personality, Lewis believed, is to overcome the mechanical ascendency imposed on it by birth and environment. Its mark is the mechanical incompetence which separates it from matter. It resists the hysterical somnambulism which results from its identification with his own projections or extensions. In the interests of truth the mind must sneeze, then laugh. “Laughter is the Wild Body’s song of triumph…. Laughter does not progress. It is primitive, hard, and unchangeable”

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