Great to see the younger minds seeking higher wisdom. Thanks for sharing your knowledge Dr. Fallon. 🙏😎

Are there any other interviews with Mcluhan where he talks about religion? This is the only one I have come across

Thanks for posting! I remember seeing St. Rita’s at the U.S.Open that year, then they came to Cleveland for the Banners and Brass show sponsored by the Buckeyes d&b corps. Another great performance in that typical 70’s style. Nice solo work, without microphones. Thanks for the memories

Mercy! How much more this applies TODAY!!

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This dumbfuck ushered more dumbfucks...Palin...Trump....

Really amazing, esp as I'm a Catholic artist who wishes to defend motherhood against its many attackers. Thanks for sharing.

I could only imagine what he'd say about Biden v. Trump debate.

the last recent comment once months ago lets change that

Great analysis of our current media output. It's becoming like a sport. Who can manipulate the public the best, to believe their own vision of life. Who needs Zombies, when you have the Walking Dead at the controls.

fantastic interview - thank you peter

We are one once again so simple

Tom Brokaw is such an insufferable boor.

Dialogues with Mcluhan look always like talking between dolls on the one side and AI on LSD on the other

Thank YOU 4 posting!!!! ....I'm from the the "Oral-Culture" and have been detecting a 'phenomena' in the form of various 'symptoms' since the 'oughts' began.

The Rush Limbaugh of the Catholic church Father Peyton was an ultra-right conservative with questionable beliefs. McLuhan for all his radical views on things was a conservative Catholic who uncomfortably raps his religion around Academics.

Ahh this shit video again, been a long time since it popped up. How you liking trump? Ready to watch the big boys make America great again? Or still crying over brown people, cuz your a beta male? Have you housed a refugee yet? I’ll I’ll leave ya alone, your prolly busy watching Bill Maher and that late night black guy for confirmation bias.

You should have come to the Church, especially the Irish, as a boy, Marshall, you'd have been even more welcomed!

"Electric information comes from all directions at once and when your information comes from all directions simultaneously you're living in an acoustic world. The acoustic world has no continuity, no homogeneity, no connections and no stasis; everything is changing. Our ancestors lived in a mythic world because they had none of the means of literate classification. A myth is a speeded up following of a process. We live mythically ourselves so that we understand their myths for the first time. You should know the stakes are; the stakes are our civilization versus tribalism and it's a considerable revolution to have been through twenty-five hundred years of phonetic literacy, only to encounter the end of that road." - Marshall McLuhan

“And this is the old myth of Narcissus. The word Narcissus means narcosis, numbness and drugged; and Narcissus was drugged into thinking that that image outside himself was somebody else. Narcissus did not fall in love with his own image, he thought it was somebody else. And the same with us, in our technology and gadgetry and gimmickry and so on, we don’t think that is merely a part of our own physical organism extended out there, we’re like Narcissus, completely numb. Now when we put out a new part of ourselves, extend a new part of ourselves by technology into the environment we protect ourselves by numbing that area. The more I looked at this the more I had difficulty explaining why people ignored it.” M. McLuhan

"Press the pants barrel": 4.bp.blogspot.com/_h0SQqY8ocp4/S7C3iADxkZI/AAAAAAAAPQ0/OSbgyS4Er1k/s1600/1936+19.jpg

"You're assuming what these people say is important." We miss you, Marshall.

"His accent is corporate not private"

"Press the pants Barrels?"

Wow, I've never seen a KZbin vid that says it's posted "X years ago" where X was double digits. I feel so old seeing this video have "10 years ago" on the thumbnail. I remember going on KZbin right when it came out, watching Halo montages and eating videos 1-5 stars instead of liking it.

Spot on. Another week and Carter would have lost the election to Ford.

What'd you use to record this?

"He wants to rap, chat and empathize with everybody about everything, and this constitutes an interface of change in dialogue"

I notice Paul Levinson is here. Paul Levinson provides little Massage - that's the rub.

Marshall McLuhan Masters "In His Own words" 1972- USC Lecture-Never Released

Go to Ebay and type in the above to hear broadcast quality clip of a full lecture.

Thanks for the uploads, very enlightening!

When was 1976?

When he was talking about the drunk who clings onto a lightpost more for support than illumination, I thought that is the incisive image for our civilization currently. "Time now for this massage"....haha

God bless America!

09:46 to hear the mistake

after McLuhan explains the obscure fact that he is in fact a professor of Literature, 09:48 Brokaw mentions the title of a book McLuhan never wrote. There's an essay called 'the medium is the message' and there's a book called the 'medium is the massage' as well as an album with the same name, there's no book called the medium is the message.

Stfu Brokaw

If the nations hate Americans then stop asking our nation to sacrifice its sons and daughters. Stop coming here and asking for help. Stop attacking the nation when there are laws that say if you are here illegally you have to go. I do not understand when some cry foul when it comes to deportation when a crime has been comitted yet at the same time want the freedoms the US offers. Where do we go? Where is it safe for Americans? Americans are attacked killed or kidnapped. somehow ppl find reaso

Amazing... just Amazing

Mr. Martin Luther King Jr., BLESS YOU!!!!!!!

we read about him back in nepal in our course book..may be a country even martin never knew...

I'm always doing Essays related to this, and every damn time I stop whatever work I'm doing and listen to this speech a few times.

Gives me a goosebumps and not an auto cue in sight

MARTIN LUTHER KING IS THE BEST

I can't really argue the point. In defense of the majority of Americans, however, I'd just point out that it was a majority of Supreme Court justices, not voters, that elected Bush in 2000. If all eligible voters had been enabled to vote in 2004, h likely would not have been reelected.

Yeah well many people can be manipulated by distortions and lies....I'm sure your country has the same fucking thing. Say anything and see how the fish bite.....pffffft.

OK, but by "corporate" he doesn't mean 'corporations' in the often-used contemporary sense of the term (i.e. he's not referring to an 'occupational standpoint' or class, necessarily). It refers to an orientation that doesn't depend primarily on an individual (in Mcluhan's words, "hot") point of view, but is rather "cool", collective and fully involving. His point here is more complicated -- you really need to read his work to see it spelled out.

Please don't post anything more here until you can read and interpret simple stats. Your ignorance is boring and wastes my time.

We're the richest nation in the world with the biggest GDP (as I said above) and a nation of 310 million. Ireland is a nation of barely four million people -- roughly 1.5% of our population. Yet we give (in aggregate dollars) only three times as much? Do you understand what that means? On a per capita basis, the Irish give far more than Americans do (you apparently didn't look at that part of the index called "countries ranked by the percentage of the population giving money."