Historical Perspective (2)
Within the final, bitter-candy, episode of the Blackadder collection ~ ‘Blackadder Goes Fo(u)rth’ ~ the comedy instantly, unexpectedly, however quite rightly and appropriately, turns very critical. It’s 1917, in the trenches of France, and the group are about to go ‘excessive’.
Helga Haberfellner, who studied with McLuhan, recollects that often after making an outrageous assertion he would say to his class ―Are you going to let me get away with that?‖ McLuhan wanted to impress his college students or his audience to think threw things for themselves. Keep in mind because McLuhan believed that every new medium numbed its customers and made them unaware of its effects he felt the necessity to exaggerate to make customers conscious of the consequences of that new medium.
But statements that supported violent protest obtained a more blended response: forty four % of those in the US would support them, while help in Europe … Read the rest