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I love a lot of Marshall McLuhan but also a lot of what he says is very metaphorical and spiritual which doesn’t always make sense to me. He is sort of a weird

• atoav 4y ago
  I mean a lot about the media is how it affects us, how it influences our very being, how it influences our fabric of the world and what the world means to us. Just looking at this in a rational or numeric fashion is certainly interesting, but also a guarantueed way to fail to recognize the bigger picture and make sense of it. Theorists like McLuhan in that sense are more about raising questions in their readers than about providing statements of facts or prooving points. Sure some proof and some facts are needed, but if the theory is compelling it can become one of many available lenses through which we can examine the world around us. We can perfectly understand the atmospheric light scattering and absorbtion that produces the colors of a beautiful sunset, but all of these facts will not help you make sense what it feels like to see it, what it means to those looking at it and how it influences their lives. I don't want to say those who just look at the optical physics are somehow wrong in doing so, quite the opposite — but there can also be value in looking at the meaning of things in a different, more open way.
  • Irate 4y ago
    On your light anecdote: magenta and pink do not exist as physical photons in reality.
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