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  • "We are completely immune to advertising, do you know why? It's all good news." - Marshall McLuhan
    Kenneth Allsop interviews the world's leading media theorist, Marshall McLuhan - the author of The Mechanical Bride, The Gutenberg Galaxy, Understanding Media, and The Medium is The Massage - about his theories of mass communication.
    Originally broadcast 19 August, 1971.
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  • @robertjeffery8045
    @robertjeffery8045 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +19

    Imagine how much preparation you'd have to do to interview Marshall McLuhan!

    • @FPOAK
      @FPOAK 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      Most people know nothing of his work

  • @eloisaklein1545
    @eloisaklein1545 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +27

    I love this: “I use precepts and not concepts”. I’m replacing a colleague of mine in this under grad course and I opened the material for the class and I found it was a collection of useless & random concepts. I erased it all and started from ground zero, using the kind of work that McLuhan was doing (and this is why I’m here btw). Because this kind of work helps us and the students to THINK about life instead of classifying things in reality.

    • @gerg64
      @gerg64 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      what do you mean by this? how can I learn how to teach like McLuhan?

    • @eloisaklein1545
      @eloisaklein1545 7 หลายเดือนก่อน

      I guess you did not read what I wrote and do not have to teach you how to read, I am not your teacher@@gerg64

    • @christiansather8438
      @christiansather8438 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      Percepts*

    • @christiansather8438
      @christiansather8438 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      @@gerg64Most people don’t want to truly perceive and would rather misunderstand everything via concepts handed to them from institutions. It can be very dangerous to be perceptive. It takes immense courage and responsibility. It’s almost akin to notions of enlightenment in the East, that is, perceiving reality and society as it is and not as it’s sold to you.

    • @MCLUHANVIDEOS
      @MCLUHANVIDEOS 4 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Whatever twice you wanna learn, UFFIE IN ACCOUNTING
      th-cam.com/video/iFsvuhD7Fr0/w-d-xo.html

  • @PeterCooperUK
    @PeterCooperUK ปีที่แล้ว +24

    Wow, this was pretty interesting. I wonder what he’d have made of the global village we now have

    • @charlotterogerz
      @charlotterogerz ปีที่แล้ว +5

      07:07 "I never state my preferences because it seems arrogant to me to express a private opinion... In a world in which you live with everybody".
      Not a lot I suppose.

    • @garyspence2128
      @garyspence2128 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      What he's describing about 'private opinions is 80% of all you tube programs and podcasts...

    • @christiansather8438
      @christiansather8438 4 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Well he coined the term global village and then I believe he adjusted the term to Global Audience.

    • @outoforbit00
      @outoforbit00 2 หลายเดือนก่อน

      He would say that we are going to implode, a global civil war.

  • @aek12
    @aek12 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +7

    McLuhan, The Great Master of Higher Perceptive Thought.

  • @benday1218
    @benday1218 ปีที่แล้ว +10

    I'd be amazed if Adam Curtis didn't pick this clip, 'but this was a fantasy...'

  • @NikkiMayLi
    @NikkiMayLi 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +7

    when you are putting on a public then you have a totally different image of yourself, then when you're all alone...

  • @kayiness
    @kayiness 4 หลายเดือนก่อน

    "Cooling is a process and hotting up is merely a target." I forgot this man be spittin!

  • @wolfman6941
    @wolfman6941 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    I tried reading his " The Mechanical Bride: Folklore of Industrial Man". I couldn't finish it.

    • @aaronartale
      @aaronartale ปีที่แล้ว +3

      I bought that book. I haven't read it either but I thought it was great, extremely profound

  • @TtableWhey
    @TtableWhey 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

    "By obsolete I mean that it is more prevalent and abounding than ever. The book has never had it so good. The printed word has never been so big and powerful as now. This means that it is obsolete, yes. Whereas TV is not obsolete and it doesn't have a fraction of the effect of print."
    "Without a contradiction there can be no polarity".
    This dude takes great pleasure in stating contradictions and riddles. He's trying hard not to laugh at himself.
    Yes, Mr McLuhan, black is white, up is down. State anything with authority and a smug, arrogant smirk and nobody can argue with you. You have the right to remain silent.
    Well done for making a career out of semantics.

    • @outoforbit00
      @outoforbit00 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      McLuhan did say in this clip that personal opinions were arrogant and as your opinion was insulting, you succeeded in proving his point spectacularly.

    • @TtableWhey
      @TtableWhey 2 หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@outoforbit00 That's just your opinion.

    • @outoforbit00
      @outoforbit00 2 หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@TtableWhey yes it is, but it's not a personal opinion. It's based of reading your comment.

    • @TtableWhey
      @TtableWhey 2 หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@outoforbit00 My opinion isn't personal either. It's metaphysical.

    • @outoforbit00
      @outoforbit00 2 หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@TtableWhey wow, McLuhan is possibly the greatest metaphysical thinker of the 20th century, what he said in this clip entirely escaped you!

  • @DanDan-hv1fm
    @DanDan-hv1fm ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Good fun.

  • @michaelreid5615
    @michaelreid5615 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Maybe, he’s most interesting interview, imo

  • @Ediblspaceships
    @Ediblspaceships 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    the purpose of studying processes is to avoid hangups and misery ...

  • @megavide0
    @megavide0 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

    0:43 "And in the future archaeologists or anthropologists [are going to] study our advertising avidly for signs of an extremely complicated culture that we live in..."
    1:45 "In fact most people would not know what the meaning of their possessions was without advertising."
    // See also: *Marshall McLuhan on the Future of Advertising (1966)*
    “Do you know that most people read ads about things they already own? They don't read ads to buy things, but to feel reassured that they have already bought the right thing. In other words, they get huge information satisfaction from ads far more than they do from the product itself,”
    --> th-cam.com/video/bNxo7fK-MJs/w-d-xo.html

  • @mjgraycomm
    @mjgraycomm หลายเดือนก่อน

    LOL the questions people asked McLuhan just show how much they really didn't get it.

  • @TinLeadHammer
    @TinLeadHammer ปีที่แล้ว +8

    So, people are not affected by ads because they good news, at the same time they are affected by ads because ads push them to buy stuff and feel good for themselves and in front of their friends? Hmm. People do not like watching bad news, but at the same time when they watch bad news they feel good about themselves because what is happening in the news is not happening with them? Hmm. I am trying to find a coherent message in his words and I cannot. The medium is the message.

    • @gregdiprinzio9280
      @gregdiprinzio9280 ปีที่แล้ว

      Re: watching bad news: Isn’t it possible to dislike an experience and yet discover in it an aspect of value? I think of the apology, or pity: the awareness one is doing the right thing.

    • @adotheginger
      @adotheginger 4 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Look up the "Agenda Setting" and you'll understand what bad news are for; McLuhan was a visionary, not an all-knower; inevitably, some of the things he said are not right; but his "medium is the message" book was spot on

    • @outoforbit00
      @outoforbit00 2 หลายเดือนก่อน

      True perception sits in the centre of a paradox, like an oracle, maybe yes, maybe no. The answer is to see in the moment. It's called wisdom.

  • @arejayseeottawa
    @arejayseeottawa ปีที่แล้ว +1

    What the heck?

  • @atmakali9599
    @atmakali9599 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Hyperbolic

  • @kamandi1362
    @kamandi1362 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Undisagreeable = agreeable. 😂

  • @Dondillilochevrolet
    @Dondillilochevrolet 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    He was definitely wrong by us people not liking to watch bad news lol, like incredibly wrong “ppl won’t like watching Vietnam” bro that’s all we have now.

    • @MCLUHANVIDEOS
      @MCLUHANVIDEOS 4 หลายเดือนก่อน

      UFFIE IN ACCOUNTING
      th-cam.com/video/iFsvuhD7Fr0/w-d-xo.html on MCLUHAN VIDEOS TH-cam

  • @JeremyHelm
    @JeremyHelm 3 หลายเดือนก่อน

    3:49 4:21 when you can't think anymore you establish an institution

    • @JeremyHelm
      @JeremyHelm 3 หลายเดือนก่อน

      4:37 the purpose of studying processes is to avoid hangups

    • @JeremyHelm
      @JeremyHelm 3 หลายเดือนก่อน

      7:54 merely a target

  • @latequilera22
    @latequilera22 4 หลายเดือนก่อน

    whos here because of The Sopranos?

  • @mut8inG
    @mut8inG ปีที่แล้ว +2

    UNLISTENABLE, UNSPEAKABLE, worldliness is appropriately dismissible. Period. Few people read any book at all. Being on the public stage is a choice. peace+& -💥🌸

  • @scottl.1568
    @scottl.1568 10 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Whut

  • @lbzorz
    @lbzorz ปีที่แล้ว +5

    He's too far out for the BBC dude... Awesome.

  • @klnine
    @klnine 11 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Wrong ! It’s now only bad news on TV

  • @NoosaHeads
    @NoosaHeads ปีที่แล้ว +2

    The BBC interviewer tried to take over the whole discussion.

    • @lbzorz
      @lbzorz ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Not on McLuhans level of abstraction and realisation.

  • @bonnetdedouche437
    @bonnetdedouche437 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    The names McLuhan...Marshall McLuhan.
    He looks a bit like the bloke on BBC Archive earlier this week that was flogging gold toilets. Minus the syrup.

  • @richard84738
    @richard84738 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    This guy sounds smart but I'm not sure he's really saying anything at all. You can tell the interviewer is frustrated with this way he gamifies his responses.

  • @h-uk7702
    @h-uk7702 7 หลายเดือนก่อน

    He may be clever but he comes over as a very poor listener, discourteous even.

    • @christiansather8438
      @christiansather8438 4 หลายเดือนก่อน

      It’s his territory. He is a bit autistic sometimes. He saw something very clearly, namely the nature of technology/media/extensions of man, and he tried his best to tell the world about it. Largely his ideas were use to do the opposite of what he intended, alas.

    • @MCLUHANVIDEOS
      @MCLUHANVIDEOS 4 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Due to respecting the audience's time
      UFFIE IN ACCOUNTING
      th-cam.com/video/iFsvuhD7Fr0/w-d-xo.html

    • @MCLUHANVIDEOS
      @MCLUHANVIDEOS 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      Thee Brit attempts to imitate a printed page McLuhan embodies dialogue

  • @luketaylor9881
    @luketaylor9881 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Not a great communicator, not convinced by his ideas as expressed here

    • @christiansather8438
      @christiansather8438 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      It takes time. You gotta read his books. Gutenberg Galaxy and Understanding Media are an acid trip. You come out totally transformed.

  • @MCLUHANVIDEOS
    @MCLUHANVIDEOS 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

    every single comment here will find this channel interesting, Adam Curtis' style and th-cam.com/video/9jWHiueK-Uk/w-d-xo.html channel's style is simply a type of scuze the pun, stylistic 'determinism' one attempts to remove the narrative crutch providing a placebo of general comprehension, rather than vomiting commercial understanding. you will not understand until you do, at which point a reply won't be attempted by you.