>Why must we insist on squeezing radically different new situations into existing categories that were clearly designed for something else? This is a problem w

>Why must we insist on squeezing radically different new situations into existing categories that were clearly designed for something else? This is a problem which Marshall McLuhan wrote about frequently, he described our situation as if we were navigating the present like someone driving down the road using only the rear view mirror. >Hypnotized by their rear-view mirrors, philosophers and scientists alike tried to focus the figure of man in the old ground of nineteenth-century industrial mechanism and congestion. They failed to bridge from the old figure to the new. It is man who has become both figure and ground via the electrotechnical extension of his awareness. With the extension of his nervous system as a total information environment, man bridges art and nature. https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Marshall_McLuhan https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Marshall_McLuhan