Imagine ANY professor today from most universities doing this kind of random unscripted questioning from the audience in the round like this and have it televised. Never happen. They are too frightened to air their opinions in this type of forum where they do not have the upper hand.
"I have no point of view. You can't have a point of view in the electronic age. A point of you means a static fixed position, and you can't have a static fixed position in the electric age. You've got to be everywhere at once whether you like it or not and you have to participate and that is not a point of view. -Marshall McLuhan (This is not transcribed exactly it's just an approximation I will work on it later)
I liked the part about Canada never leaving the 19th Century (this speech given in 1960's or thereabouts.) Just saw this today and I had read the books when new but seemed to find interviews hard to come by.
Interviewer: "You've been quoted as saying you don't necessarily agree with everything that you say?" *calmly spinning in his chair* McLuhan: "I have no point of view. As for example, now I couldn't possibly have a point of view. I'm just moving around and picking up information from many directions. A point of view means a static-fixed position. And you can't have a static, fixed position in the electric age. It's impossible to have a point of view in the electric age and have meaning at all. You've got to be everywhere at once whether you like it or not. You have to be participating in everything going on at the same time. And that's not a point of view."
50 years ago Marshall McLuhan predicted today. Why did education systems world wide remove critical thinking skills from the school & university curricula? Look around, observe. 50 years ago this guy predicted 'modern societies' becoming nothing much more than a collection of robotic automatons (zombies), motivated by media, fed by a 'throw-away' consumerist mentalities (got the latest smartphone?) & ultimately controlled by "you don't know what or whom". Far too few today know their own mind, let alone the minds of those that ultimately control them. Despite the unprecedented access to media & information today, the world is dying from ignorance of the truth. Doing 'the right-thing', over & above whining for e.g. about "CO2 being the cause of global warming", when those with critical thinking skills know about the over one million fold increase in earth's background radiation in the last 100 years. Huh? WTF? Yes, the planet is now saturated in microwaves, what do think warms you dinner, connects WiFi & links your smartphone? BTW: Is the planet warming, is it cooling? That depends on the data one has bothered to collect & analyze critically. Q. Is one determined to seek the truth, even though it be unpopular? A. Most are under the governance of government controlled media. How would the masses know except what they are told to believe? If one doesn't seek truth moment by moment, one will never know the difference between truth & a lie. Truth is immutable, despite what fashionable trends might try to ram down one's throat. Marshall McLuhan didn't have all the answers but the ones he did, he could articulate without profanity & share. History knows him to be prophetic & generally proved to be correct. The difference between truly great thinkers & trend seeking robotic zombies is therefore...
@@cr4zyu Thought, Imagination if persisted in creates reality. - Neville Goddard (If you knew how many fictional works came true or even a part as I have compiled, your jaw would drop!)
"I have no point of view. For example, now, I couldn't possibly have a point of view. I'm just moving around and picking up information from many directions. No, a point of view means a static, fixed position. And you can't have a static, fixed position in the electric age. It's impossible to have a point of view in the electric age and have any meaning at all. You've got to be everywhere at once, whether you like it or not. You have to be participating in everything going on at the same time. And that is not a point of view."
5:21 Books can be kept on micro film?You mean, books were stored on something besides cloudnets and kindle fires,in the 70's? no way! >Modern cultural shock
We used microfiche even throughout the 1980's in the two companies I worked for as an electrical engineer. These were copies of circuit diagrams and the components they consisted of as well as pages and pages of MILSPEC data when necessary.
We only understand him now because we have actually seen and experienced some of the phenomena that he described back then. But even now we are being bombarded by other technologies that go far beyond what was happening then. And we don't have Prof. McLuhan to explain it to us. We have to figure it out ourselves, while we're in the eye of the storm! Good luck...
@@ryanmcallister2321 I’m guessing vomiting for one thing. I’d rather attempt Finnegans Wake than either. DMT is the only endogenous hallucinogen, and probably the source of alien abduction fantasies.
I luv Marshall!!! What a legend! 👊💥❤️
A true savant of media. No one had a clue what he was talking about at the time. Well who's laughing now?
:)
No one is laughing now. They weren't laughing then, Terrence.
Imagine ANY professor today from most universities doing this kind of random unscripted questioning from the audience in the round like this and have it televised. Never happen. They are too frightened to air their opinions in this type of forum where they do not have the upper hand.
Quite prophetic on many points.
incredible. he even nailed the medium. cool message on a hot medium
"I have no point of view. You can't have a point of view in the electronic age. A point of you means a static fixed position, and you can't have a static fixed position in the electric age. You've got to be everywhere at once whether you like it or not and you have to participate and that is not a point of view. -Marshall McLuhan
(This is not transcribed exactly it's just an approximation I will work on it later)
Fabulous! Thanks for sharing!
I liked the part about Canada never leaving the 19th Century (this speech given in 1960's or thereabouts.)
Just saw this today and I had read the books when new but seemed to find interviews hard to come by.
Interviewer: "You've been quoted as saying you don't necessarily agree with everything that you say?"
*calmly spinning in his chair*
McLuhan: "I have no point of view. As for example, now I couldn't possibly have a point of view. I'm just moving around and picking up information from many directions. A point of view means a static-fixed position. And you can't have a static, fixed position in the electric age. It's impossible to have a point of view in the electric age and have meaning at all. You've got to be everywhere at once whether you like it or not. You have to be participating in everything going on at the same time. And that's not a point of view."
Love it!!!
this man was a genius
Anybody have the full interview?
This is 50 fucking years ago!.... What the fuck?....
50 years ago Marshall McLuhan predicted today. Why did education systems world wide remove critical thinking skills from the school & university curricula? Look around, observe. 50 years ago this guy predicted 'modern societies' becoming nothing much more than a collection of robotic automatons (zombies), motivated by media, fed by a 'throw-away' consumerist mentalities (got the latest smartphone?) & ultimately controlled by "you don't know what or whom". Far too few today know their own mind, let alone the minds of those that ultimately control them. Despite the unprecedented access to media & information today, the world is dying from ignorance of the truth. Doing 'the right-thing', over & above whining for e.g. about "CO2 being the cause of global warming", when those with critical thinking skills know about the over one million fold increase in earth's background radiation in the last 100 years. Huh? WTF? Yes, the planet is now saturated in microwaves, what do think warms you dinner, connects WiFi & links your smartphone? BTW: Is the planet warming, is it cooling? That depends on the data one has bothered to collect & analyze critically. Q. Is one determined to seek the truth, even though it be unpopular? A. Most are under the governance of government controlled media. How would the masses know except what they are told to believe? If one doesn't seek truth moment by moment, one will never know the difference between truth & a lie. Truth is immutable, despite what fashionable trends might try to ram down one's throat. Marshall McLuhan didn't have all the answers but the ones he did, he could articulate without profanity & share. History knows him to be prophetic & generally proved to be correct. The difference between truly great thinkers & trend seeking robotic zombies is therefore...
@@cr4zyu Thought, Imagination if persisted in creates reality. - Neville Goddard
(If you knew how many fictional works came true or even a part as I have compiled, your jaw would drop!)
@@cynthiaennis3107 which fictional work came true, any examples?
"I have no point of view. For example, now, I couldn't possibly have a point of view. I'm just moving around and picking up information from many directions. No, a point of view means a static, fixed position. And you can't have a static, fixed position in the electric age. It's impossible to have a point of view in the electric age and have any meaning at all. You've got to be everywhere at once, whether you like it or not. You have to be participating in everything going on at the same time. And that is not a point of view."
5:21 Books can be kept on micro film?You mean, books were stored on something besides cloudnets and kindle fires,in the 70's? no way! >Modern cultural shock
this video clip is from 1967.
I worked at a microfilm co in the early 80’s. The tech was old then. Libraries used it too for older articles & some newspapers.
I had to use it for old newspaper articles for research purposes.
We used microfiche even throughout the 1980's in the two companies I worked for as an electrical engineer. These were copies of circuit diagrams and the components they consisted of as well as pages and pages of MILSPEC data when necessary.
Chockful of revelation
Stephen Kane indeed
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same thing has happened in holland to the nth degree
WOW!
end it with a bang
California being representative of the 21st century is my biggest fear.
Careful what you wish for. The 21st century looks mostly like a mistake.
@corbettreport: You're welcome
The microfilm is the future, baby. Honestly, they don’t get him. 21st century does better.
We only understand him now because we have actually seen and experienced some of the phenomena that he described back then. But even now we are being bombarded by other technologies that go far beyond what was happening then. And we don't have Prof. McLuhan to explain it to us. We have to figure it out ourselves, while we're in the eye of the storm! Good luck...
LSD yawn..DMT is where 'its' at.
If you've taken both what is the main difference?
@@ryanmcallister2321 I’m guessing vomiting for one thing. I’d rather attempt Finnegans Wake than either. DMT is the only endogenous hallucinogen, and probably the source of alien abduction fantasies.
@@ryanmcallister2321intensities of the trip