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Superior thinker coming through

>>10299917
Mumford is good, though he takes an inverse trajectory in his work. He's no McLuhan though.

McLuhan origin story, https://youtu.be/hzpCtPGrefc

>>10300251
This is your documentary, right?

>>10300251
lol the guy who made this is off his rocker

>>10300398
Who is it, I've seen him on Twitter before posting about this doc

>He was the most advanced intelligent being in the history of mankind.
>He learned it from Finnegans Wake.

>>10300423
McLuhan was a genius. But he didn't invent anything. He was a genius in connecting the dots. He was a genius of innertrip into the sense of mankind. He inherited media studies from Harold Innis one of his masters. He was a Christian mystic like Chesterton and Maritain. All of his ideas were coming from other sources. He was exploring and very careful not to to predict anything that had not already happened. He was an artist like Shakespeare and Joyce. The artist is the person who invents the means to bridge biological inheritance and the environments created by technological innovation. He was aware of the revolution provided by media evolution. That they are taking us backwards, that they are shaping our sense ratio, and that this all is to be found in the Christian religion. That we are living in apocalypse now. He was Captain Planet for Wyndham Lewis, T. S. Eliot, Ezra Pound, W. B. Yeats, and James Joyce. He even made a very significant, albeit scarcely short contribution into the field of theory of money which is still to be recognized in my opinion, or is already in full effect implemented by world government which was much alerted by X-rayness of his teachings . His impact on the human knowledge can be compared only to Copernicus. You can take one of his quotes and be drawn by its deepness down to the landscape of all human history compressed into the eyeblink.

>>10300457
hello, friend of kantbot

I blocked you on twitter, OP, because your tweets are all annoying. You're the worst frogtwitter poster.

>>10301758
I dont know what you're talking about, I don't use Twitter. Please discuss Mcluhan in this thread.

>>10301719
? I googled Kantbot and its a Twitter account. You must be confusing me for someone else.

>>10299893
Where does one begin with this great mind? Which of his books are a great starting point?

>>10299893
How do I deal with it? Hold my hand OP.

>>10302500
The Gutenberg Galaxy

>>10302523
Watch Adventure Time S6E7. The apocalypse is the realization of a techno-tribal involutinary/devolutionary split/slide back into a homeric, neo-mythic (post-post modern), post-jungian interaction with reality.

>>10302523
"I feel that we're standing on the threshold of a liberating and exhilarating world in which the human tribe can become truly one family and man's consciousness can be freed from the shackles of mechanical culture and enabled to roam the cosmos." --MM

Read Teilhard de Chardin as well.

>>10300457
That's how all people invent things. You're stupid.

>>10302709
me smart you stupid

Bump. Who else has read McLuhan on this board.