Schooling, Technology, and Democracy Mouthpiece Essay

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Marshall McLuhan is a maunderer. Relatively devoid of garrulous asides, McLuhan's interview with Playboy Magazine reveals his loquaciousness is only matched by his insight into the myriad effects of media both past and present, which he chronicles to the end of explaining the relevance of the latter. After a lengthy two pages of background information in which McLuhan's choicest quotes, biography, and literary career are well documented, the question and answer session with Playboy's Christopher Ricks begins with McLuhan maundering, and explaining why such a circuitous rout is essential to his work as a media specialist. The explanation of his decidedly protean approach segues into the primary effect of the media and the instant-access of information age during which the interview was constructed, in which the Toronto professor elaborates on the fact that people are essentially unaware -- and consequently, subjugated -- to the effects of the media due to the proclivity of man to only understand phenomena after it has past.

The recurring motif throughout the entire interview, however, is illustrated in the aforementioned segment and in several subsequent ones -- namely that in all cases, particularly the one in which the interview was conducted, the medium ultimately becomes its very message and its ubiquity can highly influence (if not control) the lives of its recipients.

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McLuhan goes on to demonstrate this particular truth with a chonolgy of the major media advancements in the history of mankind, while also defining the term media. Endemic to this definition is the value of the human sense and the role of technological advancements (be it the phonemic alphabet or the printing press) in creating highly influential impressions upon the senses, which have the ability to eventually sway the lives and livelihoods of people themselves. The professor is grappling with a way to understand and even control modern media before it consumes those lives......

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