Fr. Patrick Peyton Interviews Marshall McLuhan, part 1

...some time in the 1970's, on Fr. Patrick ("the rosary priest") Peyton's television show, "Family Theatre."

[@PedroSimmonsONome]

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

[@delaineb]

Mercy! How much more this applies TODAY!!

[@lunaly16]

Thanks for posting this vid! :)

[@A_New_Yorker_Lost_In_Florida]

fantastic interview - thank you peter

[@ossiorn]

By the way,thank you Dr.Fellon for posting this video.I don't recall having seen this one before.

[@drfallon]

Fascinating! I'd love to hear more about it.

[@IllPropaganda]

Excellent! Thanks for the upload!

[@TheTTBT]

In his work, McLuhan made visible his massive recognition of patterns - a role normally atributed to the artist, though he never proclaimed to be an artist and generally rejected catagorization or classical-intellectual labels. The metaphorical landscape of Catholicism, as he explains in this interview, provided "nourishment" - food for his probes.

[@jfk1976]

i wish he had lived to see youtube and facebook and twitter. he predicted it all and its an injustice that his books arent taught in every school today.

[@lunaly16]

Yes! Actually i'm writing a paper relating his theories, Society of Information and GIS (geographic information system)

[@jamuscito6977]

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.

[@misterpoission]

i second that

[@MargotDarby]

Note the theme from "Peyton Place."

[@ossiorn]

Technology is the ground and its effects are invisible according to Mcluhan.His point was how all media alters our sensory ratio but all those people I mentioned before are blind to this and focus only on the content.

[@Nambypamby37]

@SSPX3 I think that happens if you feel like your thinking alienates you from others. It makes some or most people turn to a religion shared by their friends and family.

[@drfallon]

What an interesting comment! I'm not at all certain I know what you mean...

[@exactlywhatisaid]

lol the featured video right next to this is "is it a bad idea to microwave a twinkie?" mcbride your theory is proved in reverse as well

[@ossiorn]

The family that plays together,stays together The new variation.

[@debbie2027]

New doesn't make it better ... by any stretch

[@drfallon]

My pleasure. You have an interest in McLuhan?

[@drfallon]

Catholic, Protestant, Mulim, Jew -- what does it matter? He was a brilliant man. Without question, McLuhan's particular brilliance is tied to his Catholicism (as a convert). But how about Jacquess Ellul, who converted from Catholicism to Reformed Christianity? How about Harold Innis, who was a lukewarm Anglican? How about Teilhard de Chardin, whose writings were banned by the Catholic Church?

[@delaineb]

What point are you trying to make? That his faith did not matter in his arrival to these metaphysical realizations? They where the crux of all that he discovered and shared in this video.

[@ericmcbride]

"The angelic discarnate man of the electric age"... It is funny how one can stumble upon such profound ideas while looking for mundane things... such as when I clicked a link to see "The most stupid McDonald's commercial". I ended up here to confront a startling new visualisation of our evolution.

[@drfallon]

@SSPX3 Why is that a problem?

[@listen2this]

@SSPX3 McLuhan focused on how the world sends messages and arguments and such. Learning about evolution actually requires that you come back down to Earth - something rhetors have a hard time doing.

[@delaineb]

Evolution is just an unproven theory.

[@fourtyblinks]

Marshall McLuhan is Canadian, not Irish.

[@fourtyblinks]

Huh? I never said it wasn't an Irish name, but the statement "Fr. Peyton is also Irish" sure sounds like the other poster was saying that Marshall McLuhan is Irish, and not just his name. You should try to at least understand what I've said before throwing around casual insults like a prick.

[@Eldel15]

@DrFallon lol

[@giulianol]

@SSPX3 because all heroes have a weak spot, superman had kryptonite, McLuhan had faith

[@delaineb]

Faith is the cornerstone of wisdom.

[@mikeacton2203]

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.

[@ossiorn]

female supremacists,(Correction).